Mr Paweł Wąsik took up his duties as the new National Member for Poland at Eurojust this week. He replaces Mr Marius Skowronski and will serve a term of four years. Mr Wąsik (48) is an experienced public prosecutor who has been posted at the Agency since 2016 as Assistant to the National Member for Poland. He currently heads the Economic Crime Team at Eurojust.
Commenting on his appointment as the new National Member, Mr Wąsik stated: This is a great honour and an incredible opportunity to help strengthen international judicial cooperation in the fight against serious crime. I am pleased that my work and commitment to date have been recognised in this way, all the more so because I am taking up this post at a very demanding time, including the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The Polish team at Eurojust has already been doing an excellent job in this direction and, given the scale of the challenge, I am pleased to announce that the Polish authorities have decided to significantly strengthen the composition of the team from 2025.
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.