Kaczyński, who leads Poland’s conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, made the comments on Tuesday at a news conference in Warsaw.
“I am a firm supporter of a complete ban on cryptocurrencies. And, of course, I will support such a law,” Kaczyński said when asked whether PiS would back a third government attempt to regulate the cryptocurrency market.
He added that if the government proposed a partial bill, he would first have to examine whether it excluded any company from regulation, as he claimed was the case with Zondacrypto under a bill previously vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki.
Kaczyński also rejected claims that PiS-linked groups had received money from Zondacrypto.
“Our formation had absolutely nothing to do with this,” he said.
The dispute has become one of Poland’s most politically charged financial controversies.
The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in the southern city of Katowice opened an investigation on April 17 into possible large-scale fraud and money laundering involving Zondacrypto.
Prosecutors initially estimated losses at around PLN 350 million (EUR 82 million, USD 96 million), and said the figure could rise.
The case has also become entangled in the long-running conflict between Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government and President Nawrocki, who is backed by the right.
Nawrocki has twice vetoed government-backed legislation intended to regulate the crypto-assets market.
The bill would have given the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) powers to oversee the sector, including the ability to halt public cryptocurrency offerings.
It was also meant to help implement the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), a bloc-wide framework covering crypto-assets and related services.
Nawrocki vetoed the first version of the bill on December 1, 2025. The lower house, the Sejm, failed to override that veto four days later, after Tusk briefed lawmakers in a closed session on national security.
Unofficial reports at the time said the prime minister had spoken about a “crypto scandal” and a possible Russian link.
The government then resubmitted a near-identical bill. Nawrocki vetoed it again on February 12, arguing that the proposed rules were excessive and failed to include necessary changes raised during parliamentary work.
The Sejm again failed to override the veto on April 17.
Before that vote, Tusk told lawmakers that Zondacrypto’s rise had begun in 2022 under a new management team and with money which, he said, Polish intelligence services had linked to the Russian mafia.
He also said the exchange had sponsored political and social events in Poland and promoted specific political forces, including the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Rzeszów, southeastern Poland, a right-wing conference attended by Nawrocki during his presidential campaign.
The daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported on Monday that, according to findings by Polish intelligence, Zondacrypto is controlled by the Tambov mafia, a Russian organized crime group linked to politicians from Vladimir Putin’s party.
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Source: IAR, PAP