{"id":950631,"date":"2026-05-10T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950631\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:52:25","slug":"former-polish-justice-minister-ziobro-reportedly-flees-to-us-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950631\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Polish Justice Minister Ziobro reportedly flees to US \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from President Donald Trump after fleeing Hungary, <a href=\"https:\/\/wyborcza.pl\/7,75398,32781053,wyborcza-ujawnia-ziobro-uciekl-do-usa-romanowski-zostal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">local media report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ziobro had been in Hungary since 2025 after former Prime Minister Viktor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-gives-asylum-nationalist-former-polish-justice-minister-zbigniew-ziobro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orb\u00e1n granted<\/a> the disgraced minister asylum. New Hungarian leader P\u00e9ter Magyar, however, promised to launch extradition proceedings against Ziobro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-hails-new-chapter-as-magyar-sworn-in-as-hungarys-prime-minister\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-hails-new-chapter-as-magyar-sworn-in-as-hungarys-prime-minister\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upon taking office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents. He has consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-moves-arrest-former-justice-minister-zbigniew-ziobro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denied the charges<\/a>, calling the investigation a political vendetta from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fakt.pl\/polityka\/zbigniew-ziobro-z-wegier-uciekl-do-usa-msz-komentuje-doniesienia\/62fw3rz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told local media<\/a> on Sunday that it had no official information of Ziobro\u2019s whereabouts, adding that his passport had been revoked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5108,2575,32,5898,2000,299,5187,210057,41727,2190,11854,770,1772,49,1781,209128],"class_list":["post-950631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-asylum","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-tusk","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-hungarian-elections-2026","tag-hungarian-politics","tag-hungary","tag-peter-magyar","tag-poland","tag-u-s-politics","tag-united-states","tag-viktor-orban","tag-zbigniew-ziobro"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116550850870717408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}