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Lech Wałęsa perjury investigation dismissal
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The Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office has dismissed an investigation into former Polish President Lech Wałęsa regarding allegations of perjury. The case involved claims that Wałęsa had acted as a secret collaborator under the pseudonym ‘Bolek’, based on documents found in the home of Czesław Kiszczak's widow. Prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to prove Wałęsa lied during his 2016 testimony, citing methodological errors by handwriting experts from the Jan Sehn Institute of Forensic Research. Specifically, investigators Investigators noted that experts could not definitively attribute the signatures to Wałęsa and lacked ‘influential handwriting samples’ written under direct supervision to ensure a reliable comparison between the 1970s/1980s and much later samples. Wałęsa responded to the dismissal by stating that ‘truth triumphs’, though he remarked that only half of the truth had been reached. In a video statement, he addressed the prosecution's characterization of him as a ‘secondary illiterate’ during the 1970s, describing a period of ‘illiterate debility’ caused by not using a pen for over a decade. He argued that being underestimated by communist security services allowed him to pursue goals such as ending communism in Poland. He further criticized opponents for using Following the legal proceedings dismissal, Wałęsa urged supporters to attack record the names of those attacking him, labeling his legacy critics as ‘traitors to Poland’s successes’. Meanwhile, Krzysztof Wyszkowski, a co-founder of the Free Trade Unions and an opposition figure, criticized the history of prosecution's stance. Wyszkowski characterized the Solidarity movement. former president as a ‘talented deceiver’ and argued that focusing on Wałęsa's literacy was an attempt to ‘whitewash’ his historical involvement with security services.
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