A Warsaw court issued an arrest warrant and a European arrest warrant for Michał K. (name withheld due to Polish privacy laws) on Saturday, and he is also on the country’s wanted list. He is being investigated by prosecutors over allegations that the agency he headed awarded lucrative contracts without a tender, including for protective equipment during the COVID pandemic.

The case is one of several forming part of a government probe into what it says are criminal and unconstitutional acts committed by its predecessors.

Private broadcaster TVN24 reported that procedures are afoot to repatriate Michał K. to Poland and the wPolityce.pl website, a conservative news service sympathetic to the previous right-wing government, wrote that he is to appear before an extradition court on Tuesday.

The case centers on contacts between the then government and businessman Paweł Szopa, who is also wanted by prosecutors and who the onet.pl website has said received 500 million złoty (€116.72 million) from state coffers.

In an interview with the wPolityce.pl website on August 28, Michał K. denied ever having any personal relationship with Szopa, saying he had only met him during negotiations and contract talks.

Michał K. said in the interview that he was not hiding from Polish authorities or seeking refuge but merely looking for work in the U.K.

“I am however interested in a fair trial,” he told the website. “I want to return to Poland the moment I have a guarantee of an honest, fair trial.”

He also protested his innocence to the Rzeczpospolita daily.

“I will prove my innocence in court proceedings,” he told the paper. “I always acted in line with the law and in the public interest.”

The charges against Michał K. carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.