Success of BBS Law Firm’s client in a case concerning participation in an organized criminal group
9 July 2025 • Autor: Kancelaria Brysiewicz Bokina i Wspólnicy
Update: The Regional Court in Warsaw did not accept the complaint of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw regarding the motion for arrest against the Client of the BBS Law Firm. We would like to remind you that the Court of First Instance considered the evidence in the fuel case to be fragmentary and too general, and consequently insufficient for the application of temporary arrest against the Client of Kancelaria BBS. The order in this regard is now final. The case, which is being handled by the Law Firm’s partner and head of the white-collar crime practice, advocate Bartłomiej Pietruszka, relates to participation in an organised international criminal group selling fuels, money laundering and the so-called invoice crime, i.e. the offence of issuing invoices of a significant value which are false.
As reported by the Warsaw Police Headquarters, 22 persons suspected of participating in a criminal group trading in lubricating oil have been detained. The proceedings, conducted by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw with the participation of the Warsaw Police Headquarters and the Customs and Fiscal Office, concern trading in fuels and evasion of excise tax, VAT by members of the group, as well as the procedure of so-called money laundering, and these activities were to be carried out with the use of business entities related to the fuel industry.
During the last session, the court disregarded a number of motions for the application of a preventive measure in the form of temporary arrest by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw in the case of an alleged criminal group trading in fuels. At the same time, it upheld the argumentation of the law firm’s client Bartłomiej Pietruszka, deeming the collected evidence insufficient in relation to the suspect, inter alia due to the use of generalised theses for the entire group of over 20 persons.
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