Hungary has granted Poland's former justice minister asylum, he said on Monday, as the architect of judicial reforms that pushed Warsaw into years of conflict with the EU seeks to avoid abuse of power charges he calls politically motivated, APA reports, citing Reuters.
The case underlines the deepening rift between two EU and NATO members once seen as close allies, adding to turbulence in a region where the war in Ukraine and changes in U.S. foreign policy under Donald Trump have upended old certainties.
"I decided to take advantage of the asylum granted to me by the Hungarian government due to political repressions in Poland," former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro wrote on X.
Ziobro, the most high-profile figure targeted by prosecutors so far, is accused of misuse of money from the Justice Fund, designed to help victims of crime, including for the purchase of the sophisticated Pegasus spyware system. Prosecutors say that was used against domestic political opponents.
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