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2025年1月31日，波兰华沙，法律与公正党（PiS）成员、波兰前司法部长兹比格涅夫·齐布罗在波兰共和电视台总部被警方拘留后出庭接受“飞马”调查委员会质询时做出反应。Agencja Wyborcza.pl/罗伯特·科瓦莱夫斯基/via… 购买授权，新标签页打开 阅读更多
- 内容摘要
- 民主党议员就美国给被通缉的波兰前官员发放签证一事提出质询
- 议员们要求卢比奥解释其高级副手是否协助加快办理签证
- 波兰前部长面临26项指控
- 齐布罗称自己是政府发起政治迫害的目标
华盛顿5月22日路透电 — 美国众议院两名民主党高层周五要求国务卿马尔科·卢比奥解释，其高级副手是否协助加快办理签证，让一名被通缉的波兰前内阁部长从匈牙利逃往美国，逃避波兰当局的引渡请求。
路透社审阅的信件显示，议员格雷戈里·米克斯和詹姆斯·拉斯金写道，如果情况属实，“这些事件和决定构成了对权力的严重滥用，无视美国合法的移民程序”。
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米克斯和拉斯金分别是众议院外交事务委员会和司法委员会的资深民主党议员。
两人在信中表示，发放这一签证“史无前例地干涉了美国两个长期条约盟友——波兰和匈牙利——的国内政治与司法体系”，两国均为北约成员国。
他们的信件援引了路透社周一发布的一篇报道，内容称美国副国务卿克里斯托弗·兰多指示国务院高级官员为波兰前司法部长兹比格涅夫·齐布罗加快办理美国签证。
齐布罗在波兰面临26项指控，主要源于他被指控挪用犯罪受害者基金资金。他否认存在不当行为，称自己是波兰执政的亲欧盟联盟发起政治迫害的受害者。
白宫指示相关问询交由国务院处理。国务院发言人表示：“作为一般原则，我们不会对国会往来信函置评。”
波兰总理唐纳德·图斯克的政府表示，将对齐布罗提起诉讼，检察官已准备好向美国提交引渡请求。
齐布罗在可能引渡前办妥签证
齐布罗于1月逃往匈牙利，并获得匈牙利前总理维克多·欧尔班的庇护。华沙曾希望欧尔班在4月选举中被亲欧盟竞争对手彼得·马扎尔击败后，齐布罗能被遣返回波兰。马扎尔曾表示，他将在就职首日就引渡齐布罗。
但据三名消息人士透露，兰多反而指示国务院华盛顿领事事务局的高级官员，指示美国驻布达佩斯大使馆为齐布罗发放签证，其中一名消息人士称这是记者签证。
齐布罗在马扎尔5月9日就职前办妥了签证。据波兰检察官透露，由于波兰护照已被注销，他以难民证件前往意大利，随后抵达美国。
米克斯和拉斯金在信中指出，齐布罗若被定罪，最高可面临25年监禁，其中包括他被指控挪用部分犯罪受害者赔偿资金购买间谍软件用于监视政治对手的指控。
议员们表示，向齐布罗发放签证可能会“引发与波兰的严重外交危机”。他们要求特朗普政府配合华沙提出的任何引渡请求。
他们要求卢比奥以书面形式回答有关此案的问题，并不晚于6月21日向他们所在的委员会进行当面简报。
质询内容包括美国总统唐纳德·特朗普或其任何助手是否参与批准齐布罗的签证，以及签证获批的依据。
两人还要求提供兰多、领事事务局、美国驻华沙和布达佩斯大使馆之间的所有文件和通讯，以及与美国驻波兰大使汤姆·罗斯相关的任何材料。
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Exclusive: Democrats demand Rubio explain visa for wanted former Polish official
2026-05-22T20:34:49.222Z / https://www.reuters.com/world/democrats-demand-rubio-explain-visa-wanted-former-polish-official-2026-05-22/
Member of the Law and Justice (PiS) party and former Poland’s Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro reacts after he was detained by police at the Polish TV Republika station’s headquarters to be brought to testify before the Pegasus Investigation Committee, in Warsaw, Poland January 31, 2025. Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Robert Kowalewski/via… Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabRead more
- Summary
- Democratic lawmakers question US visa for wanted Polish former official
- Lawmakers demand Rubio explain if top deputy helped expedite visa
- Polish former minister faces 26 charges
- Ziobro says he’s target of political campaign by government
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – Two top U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Friday asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to explain whether his top deputy helped expedite a visa that allowed a wanted former Polish cabinet minister to flee to the U.S. from Hungary, evading an extradition request from Polish authorities.
If true, “these events and decisions constitute a massive abuse of power and disregard for the legal immigration processes of the United States,” Representatives Gregory Meeks and James Raskin wrote in a letter to Rubio that Reuters reviewed.
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Meeks and Raskin are the senior Democrats on the House foreign relations and judiciary committees respectively.
The granting of the visa represents “an unprecedented level of interference in the domestic politics and judicial systems of two longstanding U.S. treaty allies,” the pair wrote, referring to Poland and Hungary, both of which are NATO members.
Their letter cited a Reuters report published on Monday that Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau directed senior State Department officials to facilitate and expedite a U.S. visa for former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro.
Ziobro is wanted in Poland on 26 charges, mainly stemming from his alleged misuse of money from a crime victims’ fund. He has denied wrongdoing, saying he is the victim of a politically motivated campaign by Poland’s ruling pro-European Union coalition.
White House directed inquiries to the State Department. “As a general matter, we do not comment on congressional correspondence,” a State Department spokesperson said.
The government of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says it intends to put Ziobro on trial and that prosecutors have prepared an extradition request to the United States.
ZIOBRO SECURED VISA AHEAD OF LIKELY EXTRADITION
Ziobro fled in January to Hungary and received asylum from former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Warsaw had hoped that Orban’s defeat by pro-EU rival Peter Magyar in an April election would see Ziobro returned to Poland. Magyar had said that he would extradite him on his first day in office.
Instead, Landau directed senior officials in the State Department’s Consular Affairs Bureau in Washington to instruct the U.S. embassy in Budapest to issue a visa for Ziobro, said three sources, one of whom said it was a journalist visa.
Ziobro secured his visa ahead of Magyar’s May 9 swearing-in and, according to Polish prosecutors, traveled to Italy and then to the U.S. on a refugee document as his Polish passport had been invalidated.
In their letter, Meeks and Raskin noted that Ziobro faces up to 25 years in jail if convicted on the charges he faces, including allegations he used some crime victims compensation funds to buy spyware to use against political rivals.
The lawmakers said that giving the visa to Ziobro threatened to “invite a significant diplomatic crisis” with Poland. They demanded that the Trump administration comply with any extradition requests from Warsaw.
They asked that Rubio answer in writing questions about the case and provide an in-person briefing to their committees no later than June 21.
The questions included whether U.S. President Donald Trump or any of his aides were involved in approving Ziobro’s visa and the grounds on which it was granted.
The pair also demanded any documents and communications between Landau, the Bureau of Consular Affairs, the U.S. embassies in Warsaw and Budapest, and any related to any involvement of Tom Rose, the U.S. ambassador to Poland.
Reporting by Jonathan Landay; additional reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Don Durfee and Nick Zieminski
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