Tomasz Misiak

Tomasz Wojciech Misiak (born 7 July 1973 in Wrocław) is a Polish politician and businessman.

Tomasz Misiak was born in Wrocław, Poland, in 1973 and graduated from the Oskar Lange Economic Academy in Wrocław in 2000, as well as postgraduate studies in management (IESE Business School, Global Leadership Seminar at Georgetown University, and Global CEO Program).

He was elected to the Wrocław City Council in 1998 and served as chairman of the Economic Initiatives Committee.

Misiak co-founded Work Service, a temporary employment agency in Poland, and served as its vice president from 1999 to 2007.

Misiak entered politics as a member of the Union of Freedom and later joined the Civic Platform party.

In 2000, as a Wrocław councilor, he co-directed the Euro Art Meeting association, which organized an event to celebrate the millennium.

It turned out that the event cost not 3, but nearly 4 million złoty, and the organizers were unable to account for 250,000 złoty before the Supreme Audit Office.

In another scandal, the so-called "pumping wheels" affair of the party organization at the Wrocław Economic Academy where Misiak was active, the organization had grown almost tenfold and was also expanded with fictitious members.

In 20.01.2012 Rzeczpospolita published the following apology as a result of a court settlement:

In 2005, he was elected to the Polish Senate and was re-elected in 2007.

As a senator, Misiak chaired the Senate Committee on Economy.

In November 2008, "Rzeczpospolita" revealed that Misiak had lobbied for the enactment of regulations concerning commodity vouchers for employees, with a market worth 2 billion złoty at stake.

The issue concerned the possibility of selling vouchers below their nominal value, which would consolidate the hypermarket monopoly.

The media also reported on other ventures of the senator behind which there were financial irregularities.

In 2009, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced at a press conference the removal of Misiak from the party due to a scandal involving his company Work Service receiving a contract from the Polish government for job training and placement services for laid-off shipyard workers.

He was accused of a conflict of interest since he was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Economy, which had worked on the legislation regarding liquidation of shipyards in Gdansk and Szczecin which made the contract possible.

Later, Industrial Development Agency and his company terminated the agreement regarding services for shipyard workers.

Misiak was removed from his position as chairman of the Senate Committee on Economy and left Civic Platform.

He also lost his position as the head of the party's campaign for the European Parliament.

"Clarification Hereby, we correct the false statement that appeared in articles published in the "Rzeczpospolita" newspaper in 2009, alleging that Senator Tomasz Misiak submitted amendments to the shipyard law, as a result of which the Work Service company received an order from which it was to benefit in the amount of PLN 48 million. It is not true that Tomasz Misiak, serving as a Senator of the Republic of Poland, sought changes in the 2004 law on the promotion of employment and labor market institutions regarding the increase in state expenditures on training for the unemployed, from which provisions the Work Service company was to benefit."

We apologize.

In 2011, Misiak ran for re-election to the Senate but was unsuccessful.

He ran from the election committee of the Union of Presidents - Citizens for the Senate but did not win a seat again.

Editorial Team" Similar apologies were also published by Dziennik Polski and TVN TV Network "The content of the article "Non-partisan Citizens to the Senate" dated July 6, 2011, incorrectly described the circumstances of Senator Tomasz Misiak's departure from the Civic Platform.

The information about Senator Tomasz Misiak's activities reported by the media at the time of his resignation from the party membership ultimately found no confirmation.

We apologize for the inaccuracy" https://archive.is/20120905142506/http://www.misiak.org/media.html

In 2017, the Prosecutor's Office publicly released information about celebrities, politicians and other prominent figures who were clients of a drug dealer, naming Misiak among the clients.

Misiak was mentioned in the dealer's indictment as one of his regular customers.

Misiak was repeatedly recorded by the Central Bureau of Investigation while purchasing cocaine, and these recordings were one of the prosecution's evidence against the dealer.

On October 8, 2019, the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders dismissed Misiak from the Supervisory Board of Work Service S.A.

Cezary P., the "star dealer," was convicted and sentenced to prison in December 2019.

The court case took place with participation of the media and was open to public.

In December 2022, Misiak faced legal trouble as the Warsaw Court of Appeals upheld the International Court of Arbitration's decision concerning the sale of Work Service S.A. shares.

Misiak was found to owe nearly 6 million PLN to the Italian company GI Group.

He claimed he was forced to sell his shares and refused to execute the agreement.

However, the court did not find these claims to be true.

GI Group obtained a favorable verdict, and Misiak was ordered to pay 5.9 million PLN.

Misiak's appeal was dismissed, and he was charged with full court costs of 200,000 PLN.

GI Group publicly announced that they had not yet received the compensation awarded from Misiak, as he declared that he had no assets or properties, and the bailiff executing the judgment could not find any assets either.

In June 2021, protests erupted after a consortium led by TLScontact, which included Misiak's new company Personnel Service S.A. and Ukrainian company Viza Staff, was awarded the contract for handling visa applications and small border crossings at the Polish Embassy in Kiev.