Zbigniew Bogucki, head of Nawrocki's office, said on Wednesday that the bill had been sent to the Speaker of Poland’s lower house of parliament.
Bogucki said the proposal was based on three main principles: protecting consumers and investors, ensuring effective state supervision of the crypto-assets market, and safeguarding the constitutional rights of entrepreneurs operating in the sector.
Crypto-assets include cryptocurrencies and related digital tokens.
Poland is working to adapt its rules to the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, a bloc-wide framework intended to bring clearer rules to a fast-growing and often lightly regulated sector.
The presidential proposal includes stronger warnings against high-risk entities, immediate notification when an account is blocked, and faster court review of blocked funds.
It would also limit the ability of officials to block funds for long periods, provide compensation for unlawful action by state bodies, and speed up administrative decisions.
The move comes after Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that the government would submit its crypto-assets bill to parliament for the third time.
He said the new version would mainly introduce tougher penalties for those who exploit investors’ hopes, lack of knowledge or naivety, and who put Poland’s security at risk.
Tusk also referred to the Zondacrypto exchange, alleging possible links between Russian organized crime and funds used to help organize the cryptocurrency platform.
He pointed to the still-unresolved disappearance of Sylwester Suszek, the founder and first owner of BitBay, Zondacrypto’s predecessor, who went missing in March 2022.
Since April 17, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in the southern city of Katowice has been investigating possible fraud against Zondacrypto clients and money laundering.
National Public Prosecutor Dariusz Korneluk has said that investigators will not ignore any line of inquiry, including possible Russian links and organized crime groups.
The case has added urgency to the political argument over crypto regulation.
Zondacrypto owns a wallet containing 4,500 bitcoins, worth more than USD 300 million. Zondacrypto CEO Przemysław Kral said on April 16 that the keys to the wallet were held by Suszek.
Bogucki accused the government of failing to act earlier. Referring to media reports that prosecutors in Katowice had previously conducted two investigations connected to BitBay and Zondacrypto, later discontinued in April 2024 and February 2025, he said Tusk’s government bore responsibility for inaction.
Officials said on Friday that the latest government draft had been sent to parliament.
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.
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.
MPs 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 last month 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