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===Controversial pardons=== In December 2005, when his presidency was coming to an end, he granted [[clemency]] for a post-Communist deputy minister of Justice Zbigniew Sobotka, who had been sentenced for 3.5 years of prison for revealing a state secret (effectively, he warned gangsters about an operation against them). Kwaśniewski changed the prison sentence to [[probation]].<ref>{{cite news |language=pl |work=[[Gazeta Wyborcza]] |url=http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/kraj/1,47243,3072146.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231074520/http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/kraj/1,47243,3072146.html |archive-date=31 December 2006 |title=Kwaśniewski ułaskawił Sobotkę |date=2005-12-17 |trans-title=Kwaśniewski pardoned Sobotka}}</ref><ref> {{cite news |language=pl |work=[[WP.pl]] |url=http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,wid,8124847,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=12ddb |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224050641/http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,wid,8124847,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=1df9e |archive-date=2012-02-24 |date=2005-12-16 |title=Zbigniew Sobotka ułaskawiony |trans-title=Zbigniew Sobotka pardoned}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Marek Chodakiewicz|work=The Institute of World Politics |title=Kwasniewski's chekist service killed his chance to head UN|url=http://www.iwp.edu/news/newsID.315/news_detail.asp|access-date=2020-09-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317171437/http://www.iwp.edu/news/newsID.315/news_detail.asp|archive-date=17 March 2007|quote=Likewise, in December 2005, Kwasniewski pardoned the post-Communist deputy minister of Justice Zbigniew Sobotka, who had warned gangsters about a planned police operation against them. Sobotka was convicted and sentenced to jail but the presidential pardon freed him.}}</ref> Another case of Kwaśniewski's controversial granting of [[pardon]]s was the [[Peter Vogel (banker)|Peter Vogel]] case. The story goes back to 1971 when Piotr Filipczyński, a.k.a. Peter Vogel was sentenced to 25 years in jail for a brutal murder (shortened to 15 years in 1979). Surprisingly enough, in 1983 (during [[martial law in Poland]]) he was granted a passport and allowed to leave the country. He returned in 1990 soon earning the nickname "the accountant of the Left" as a former Swiss banker who took care of more than thirty accounts of Polish [[Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)|social democrats]]. Despite an arrest warrant issued in 1987, Vogel moved freely in Poland and was eventually arrested in 1998 in Switzerland. After Vogel's extradition to Poland, in 1999 Kwaśniewski initiated the procedure of granting him amnesty. In December 2005 (a few days before leaving his office) Kwaśniewski pardoned Vogel despite the negative opinion of the procurer.<ref>[http://www.iwp.edu/news/newsID.315/news_detail.asp The institute of world politics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317171437/http://www.iwp.edu/news/newsID.315/news_detail.asp |date=17 March 2007 }}, retrieved on 1 January 2007</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wprost.pl/ar/?O=85649 |language=pl |work=[[Wprost]] |author1-first=Grzegorz |author1-last=Indulski |author2-first=Balz |author2-last=Rigendinger |title=Kasjer Vogel |date=8 January 2006}}</ref>
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