In 2023, the Polish Desk was involved in 629 new cases, 76 coordination meetings, 2 coordination centres, and 41 joint investigation teams.
Poland
National Member
National Member
Mr Paweł Wąsik was appointed National Member for Poland in January 2025. Prior to his appointment, he was posted at the Agency since 2016 as Assistant to the National Member for Poland.
Since August 2023, Mr Wąsik has been Chair of the Economic Crime Team at Eurojust, coordinating and overseeing the support to specialised judicial experts and the coordination of cases concerning crimes such as swindling, fraud and money laundering. From July 2020 to 2023, he was Vice-Chair of the Economic Crime Team.
Mr Wąsik has extensive experience in combatting economic crimes. From 2010 until joining Eurojust in 2016, he worked as a public prosecutor at the Department of Economic Crime in the Circuit Prosecutor’s Office of Poznan. He started working for the Polish judiciary in June 2003 as a public prosecutor in the District Office of Poznan Grunwald.
The new National Member for Poland obtained a Master in Law at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in 2000. He undertook several postgraduate studies in Economic and Business Law, Economic Criminal Law, and Financial Investigations and Analysis of Financial Crimes in Warsaw, Krakow and Strasbourg. He also followed a specialised study in asset recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance in 2018. In addition to his native Polish, Mr Wąsik speaks English and French.
Deputy National Member
Mr Jaroslaw Malinowski has been Deputy National Member for Poland since September 2024. He has nearly 30 years of experience as a prosecutor, having served at various levels of the prosecution service in Poland.
Currently, Mr Malinowski is working from the National Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, in the Department for Organised Crime and Corruption. His areas of focus include export control and dual-use items, combating organised drug crime, espionage cases, and combating terrorist threats. In recent years, he has participated in multiple working groups and has been invited to speak at international meetings on these topics.
Mr Malinowski’s expertise extends to joint investigations with international partners, including the United States. He is an active member in the Joint Investigative Team established to investigate the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine (ICPA).
Mr. Malinowski graduated in 1994 from the Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin. He later pursued postgraduate studies in in criminal law at the University of Warsaw and economics at the Warsaw School of Economics.
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Casework
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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New cases (total) | 315 | 393 | 465 | 421 | 531 | 600 | 629 |
Coordination meetings (initiating and/or participating) | 44 | 31 | 47 | 30 | 41 | 76 | 76 |
Coordination centres (organising and/or participating) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Joint investigation teams (newly signed and/or ongoing) | 4 | 20 | 25 | 27 | 23 | 30 | 41 |