Investigation against Ms. Helena Wolińska-Brus Institute of National Remembrance - Warsaw Branch of the Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation conducts an investigation in case of Helena Wolińska-Brus, who allegedly, in the period from June 8th, 1950 to October 3rd, 1953 in Warsaw, while performing obligations of a public prosecutor and taking subsequent managerial positions in the High Military Prosecutor's Office, carried into effect contemporary policies of the communist state. She took part in repressing soldiers who were connected with the armed forces fighting for the sovereignty of Poland and persecuting people whose political beliefs were contradictory to the state's communist doctrine. While being responsible for the supervision of the investigations conducted by the investigative organs of the Ministry of Public Safety, she tolerated the lawlessness of those organs which expressed itself in unlawful imprisonment and confinement of people under investigative arrest without making a decision on a temporary arrest or after expiration of deadlines prescribed for decisions concerning the persons under confinement. While not reacting to the above injustice, she sanctioned the facts of unlawful imprisonment of the confined persons by issuing decisions on temporary arrest of those persons only after a period of time from their arrest, or by supporting motions of the Ministry of Public Safety submitted after a deadline and directed to military courts for prolongation of temporary arrests, which in turn resulted in the situation when the investigative bodies of the said Ministry were made to be the deponents of legal cases and fate of persons temporarily arrested. That had led to long-term, illegal confinement of those people under investigative arrest in cases which were later discontinued or which were passed on to the public prosecutor's office according to their adequacy. Besides, Helena Wolińska-Brus accepted prolonged confinement at the investigative prison of temporarily arrested persons who were subject to charges filed at military courts, groundlessly and regardless of the needs of the investigation. Also she personally illegally imprisoned 16 persons for 7 days, despite lacking a legal base to use such preventive means. By her performance she fulfilled the statutory features of the crime described in the article 189 § 2 of the Criminal Code of 1997 acc. to art. 91 § 1 CC of 1997 and acc. to art. 2 of Act 1 and art. 3 of the Act of 18 December 1998 of the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation /Official Journal No. 155. position 1016 with amendment/. Helena Wolińska-Brus was charged with committing 16 criminal acts.
On May 31st, 2001, Director of the Head Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation - Assistant General Prosecutor Professor Witold Kulesza turned to the Minister of Justice - General Prosecutor of the Republic of Poland with a motion addressed to the British authorities to temporarily arrest and release the Polish citizen - Ms. Helena Wolińska-Brus.
On June 29th, 2001, the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland approved of the motion in question. On July 26th, the motion was directed by the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Home Office of the United Kingdom. August 1st, 2001