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Post by Bonobo on Mar 16, 2018 23:51:04 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 17, 2018 18:38:26 GMT 1
PiS liars continued
Former Prime Minister on 11 Nov 2015, Independence Day:
This government is made up by wonderful people. Righteous, hard-working, responsible. This government`s motto will be work and humbleness.
She finishes with a popular Polish saying: We`ll manage! Yes, they succeeded in grabbing dough. Congrats.
Prime Minister`s expose after being nominated: Humbleness, work, restraint, efficiency, responsibility.
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 23, 2018 23:00:18 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 5, 2018 21:17:27 GMT 1
Ex Prime Minister made a speech in which she defended the bonuses, saying her ministers and herself deserved them for their hard work for Poland. When the opposition booed and shouted "Give back the dough," she accused them of having done much worse things, including taking bribes from business. She didn`t mention modesty and humbleness, like 2 years ago, any more. Pity.   In an interview a few days ago Kaczyński admitted that he fully supported the bonuses and even it was him who ordered Szydło to "show claws" in her speech. After the opinion polls have plummeted for PiS to levels unseen for a few years, Kaczyński denied saying that. What is more, today he announced that all ministers are going to give their bonuses to charity. Reporters tried to talk to those ministers but with no avail - they weren`t too enthusiastic about their leader`s decision. Previously they claimed they had fully deserved the extra money. This panic and desperation in PiS ranks is priceless! I hope the serious drop in polls will continue. Liars and broadlight robbers must pay for their acts. Incited by PiS chairman, ex Prime Minister exclaims: They simply deserved that money!We simply deserve that monkey! |
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 6, 2018 23:53:11 GMT 1
PiS is trying to defend their unjustified bonuses by pointing out to what former ruling party, PO, did in the past. However, the comparison is shocking and makes PiS`s explanations even more pathetic. One example from the Ministry of Justice: A few PO bonuses throughout 8 year`s rule amounted to 34.300 zlotys from 2007 to 2015. PiS single bonus in single 2017 - 72.000. The info for 2016 is still unavailable.  In Poland we call it: a leap/heist on the till.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Jul 3, 2018 16:14:34 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 21, 2018 13:38:50 GMT 1
Resorting to opposition grabbed-millions campaign, PiS produced such posters: We took millions from thieves and gave it to children.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 27, 2018 22:12:57 GMT 1
More and more corruption cases are surfacing, with PiS men playing main roles. The detained financial expert had been nominated to his post by PiS and closely cooperated with them later on. polandin.com/39929281/head-of-financial-supervision-authority-resignspolandin.com/40161468/former-head-of-financial-watchdog-detainedbiznes.pap.pl/en/news/all/info/2634820,knf-financial-market-regulator-head-chrzanowski-accused-of-making-corruption-proposal---press www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-13/poland-premier-to-probe-bank-watchdog-over-getin-bribe-report
The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) detained Marek Ch. (surname withheld under the Polish privacy law), the former head of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF).
Mr Ch. resigned from his position of the KNF chairman on November 13 over allegations of corruption.
On Monday, his successor, Jacek Jastrzębski, started his role as the head of KNF.
The fact of detaining Marek Ch. was confirmed by Temistokles Brodowski, the spokesperson of CBA.
“He will be handed over to the prosecutor’s office in Katowice [southern Poland], where he will face corruption charges,” he said.
The representative of the CBA emphasised that detaining Mr Ch. was possible thanks to the quick reaction of the Bureau, which prepared an analysis of the recording of the conversation between Mr Ch. and Leszek Czarnecki, the owner of Getin Noble Bank.
“Thanks to the intensive work of the CBA agents last week, including sweeps, interrogating witnesses, seizing documentation and electronic devices, it was possible to quickly detain Marek Ch. in order to press charges against him,” Mr Brodowski said.
Michał Dworczyk, the head of the Polish Prime Minister’s office told Polish public radio that detaining the former head of the KNF “proves that the state is working.”
“No doubt there were reasons to detain him,” Mr Dworczyk said, adding that only after the verdict of the court “it will be possible to clearly tell what happened.”     |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 8, 2019 22:45:09 GMT 1
Latest Byzantine profligacy PiScandal. PiS nominated chairman of the Bank of Poland has employed two female assistants. They have earned 65K+ monthly, more than the Prime Minister or President. Not only Polish but foreign ones, too. Nice.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 12, 2019 18:25:06 GMT 1
Latest Byzantine profligacy PiScandal. PiS nominated chairman of the Bank of Poland has employed two female assistants. They have earned 65K+ monthly, more than the Prime Minister or President. Not only Polish but foreign ones, too. Nice.
Central bank pay scandal hits Poland’s ruling party
Media says two of bank chief’s aides earn big money.
By Wojciech Kość
1/9/19, 8:00 PM CET
Updated 1/11/19, 4:10 PM CET
WARSAW — Adam Glapiński is a long-time friend and ally of Poland’s de facto leader Jarosław Kaczyński, which is why he was given the job of running the country’s central bank.
But an increasing swirl of scandal around the bank means Glapiński is becoming a problem for Kaczyński’s Law and Justice (PiS) party ahead of the parliamentary election later this year.
The latest involves two of Glapiński’s senior aides.
Polish media calculated their salaries, and claimed that the bank’s director of communications and promotion, Martyna Wojciechowska, makes around 65,000 zloty per month (over €15,000), 13 times the national average and more than the country’s president.
The media also claimed that another National Bank of Poland (NBP) employee, Kamila Sukiennik, who manages Glapiński’s office, is also on the board of the Central Securities Depository — the financial instruments regulator — despite having no formal qualifications for the job.
“Public opinion is waiting for concrete figures being earned by certain people in the NBP” — Jan Maria Jackowski, PiS senator
That’s created a massive image problem for PiS, which swept to power in 2015 promising to clean up the country after eight years of rule by the centrist Civic Platform party.
Law and Justice is still well ahead of Civic Platform in opinion polls, but the party is worried that any hint of corruption could be damaging in an electoral year.
Scrambling to respond
The reports prompted a divided response from the ruling party.
Jan Maria Jackowski, a PiS senator seen as loyal to Kaczyński, publicly asked the bank to reveal its employees' salaries, saying the reportedly exorbitant pay packets contrasted with the “good change” that PiS promised when taking power in 2015.
“Public opinion is waiting for concrete figures being earned by certain people in the NBP,” Jackowski told the pro-government wpolityce portal.
President Andrzej Duda took a different tack, blaming previous NBP Governor Marek Belka for the bank’s salary structure.
The bank responded on Wednesday.
“No director at the NBP is making 65,000 złoty per month,” the central bank’s deputy director of personnel Ewa Raczko told reporters. But she refused to say how much the aides are earning, only saying that the average salary of all directors is over 36,000 złoty (over €8,000) a month.
“That reminds me of the joke in which a statistician drowned in a lake that was only 10 centimeters deep, on average,” Jackowski said in response.
Even government loyalists like Beata Mazurek, the deputy speaker of parliament, were nonplussed. Mazurek said she is “not satisfied” with the central bank’s news conference.
“Pillaging public institutions by people tied to PiS is your responsibility” — Sławomir Neumann, the head of Civic Platform’s parliamentary caucus
Glapiński himself held a news conference later in the day, insisting his bank has done nothing wrong and that he has no intention of quitting. “There is no problem,” he said.
He had caustic words for Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin, who has also expressed concern about the reported salaries. “I would advise Mr. Gowin to take a couple of deep breaths before speaking about the NBP … If that doesn’t help then a cold shower.”
He also accused the media of “scandalous, brutal, primitive, sexist” attacks on his two aides because they are women, and said he is opposed to revealing their salaries.
The central bank is one of the country’s most respected institutions, playing a key role in deflecting the impact of the 2008 global economic crisis and safeguarding the value of the Polish currency.
The złoty has not been affected by the latest fuss around the bank.
“Markets have fully digested the influence of Mr. Kaczyński himself and do not really react to his unconventional views any longer. So it is unlikely that discovery of some specific corruption at NBP will have much impact. Rather, it will be viewed as a person-specific matter,” said Tatha Ghose, senior emerging markets economist at Commerzbank.
It’s not Glapiński’s first brush with scandal.
His protégé Marek Chrzanowski, the head of the Financial Supervision Authority, Poland’s financial market watchdog, was arrested in November on corruption charges. Polish billionaire and banker Leszek Czarnecki accused him of offering to go lightly on his troubled banks in return for hiring an ally for an enormous salary.
Glapiński also met with Czarnecki and Chrzanowski, although not when the alleged offer was made.
Both scandals have been seized on by the opposition.
“Pillaging public institutions by people tied to PiS is your responsibility,” Sławomir Neumann, the head of Civic Platform’s parliamentary caucus, said of Kaczyński.
This article is part of POLITICO Pro’s premium Financial Services coverage, which looks at fiscal policy across the Continent. For a complimentary trial of the full Pro service, email pro@politico.eu and mention Financial Services.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 10, 2019 10:51:50 GMT 1
Radom corruption scandal has been swept under the carpet by PiS controlled prosecution Google translated article navva.org/poland/nation/radom-scandal-mep-nowoczesna-wants-to-call-a-commission-for-special-services-where-pis-there-is-a-jump-polityka-everything-about-politics-in-dziennik-pl-2/In Polish www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/uklad-radomski-nieruchomosciowy-biznes-czolowych-politykow-pis/7hksch1
Radom scandal. MEP Nowoczesna wants to call a commission for special services. "Where PiS, there is a jump" – Polityka – everything about politics in Dziennik.pl
Journalists from ZET and the "GW" achieved operating materials CBA, showing that the Agency has been developing since 2013 corruption systemin which the leading PiS politicians from Radom were involved.
Among the suspects were m.in. Marek Suski and the then president of PiS Andrzej Kosztowniak. The charges were so serious that the Radom MPs would come on the carpet Jaroslaw Kaczyńskiwho demanded a notarial certificate that they had not accepted bribes.
– These are internal party affairs – shortens Costly in an interview with Radio ZET. However, he does not deny that such a meeting with the PiS chairman took place.
The materials of the CBA show that Radom local government officials had to be corrupted local businessman, of which the companies were one of the main contractors of construction works carried out in Radom and Mazowieckie, commissioned, among others, by the city council in Radom.
As the journalists have established, the CBA wanted to request a withdrawal immunity Precious, but in the end this did not happen, and the investigating researcher left the service. Accusations of corruption have so far only been heard by the former vice president of the city Igor M. The accused pleaded guilty.
Suski: The accusations of "GW" with regard to bribes in Radom are a lot of nonsense
The allegations of the "Gazeta Wyborcza" regarding bribery in Radom are a lot of nonsense, but they show the scale surveillance of the opposition through the Civic Platform between 2007 and 2015 – Prime Minister Marek Suski & # 39; s Cabinet referred to "GW" in an interview with PAP on Thursday.
"Gazeta Wyborcza" and Radio ZET announced on Thursday that the CBA had material in 2016 to bring corruption against two PiS MPs from Radom.
According to the "GW", after the change of power, the case was silenced, one
the officer who led her left the service.
In "GW" it was written that the corruption system in Radom would operate from 2007 onwards
year. According to the newspaper, representatives of the authorities would participate
cities and businesses; in exchange for setting up auctions, property benefits
they would receive the former president of the city, currently PiS deputy Andrzej
Expensive, his advisor Krzysztof Sońta, his family member and council member Karol
Sonta and the vice-president of the city and, at the same time, brother-in-law of Karol Sonty, Igor M.
Such as & # 39; GW & # 39; writes, they had the whole thing for Jaroslaw Kaczynski together
translate the precious and the current head of the cabinet of Prime Minister Marek Suski,
indicated by "GW" as "Radom Baron".
In an interview with PAP Suski said that the accusations of "Gazeta Wyborcza" are "on"
at first sight a lot of nonsense. "- "Gazeta Wyborcza" reached
bottoms in unfounded defamation – Suski stresses.
– However, it is a very interesting information, which shows the scale
surveillance of the opposition by the ruling PO. If we all had one
eavesdropping, when the officers have been sent to us and committed
different provocations, and for several years of PO governance from 2007 to 2015.
no convincing evidence has been found for our so-called
some illegal activities, it turns out that you really do not
there were no irregularities – added the head of the prime minister's office.
"What he does today + Gazeta Wyborcza +, attributed to the first
even corruption in the current government
by the president of the PO, as well as corruption in Pabianice, Kozienice, where
no influence or knowledge about these investments had the former president
Radom, it shows the scale of the absurd used by + Gazeta
Wyborcza + "- he added.
According to Suski, this is an "attack" that is an attempt to undermine
credibility of PiS. The head of the prime minister's office described the entire article as
"Lie". "I have known for a long time that the media inspired unfavorable law and justice
by politicians who are unfavorable to us, they prepare a lying attack on me and
my colleague's, "he said.
When asked whether he is considering submitting lawsuit to "GW", Suski stressed that in
newspaper material is not accused of corruption at his address. – Objections are not addressed to me, I am not mentioned
if someone who has taken bribes is only said to be a baron.
It would be difficult to continue against it – Suski said.
The head of the prime minister's office informed him that, to his knowledge, he did
the president of Radom, and currently PiS MP Andrzej Kosztowniak will be
he demanded apology from "Gazeta Wyborcza". – If these apologies and
correcting is not posted, certainly (Andrzej Kosztowniak)
he will bring the case to court – Suski said.
– Nonsense is, you can say, cosmic. I think you're doing this
to accuse someone in the US of accepting bribes for a trip to the moon because
the president of Radom has the same influence on what the mayor of Kozienice does
as for NASA – he added.
According to "GW" bribes in Radom had to be presented in the form
in cash and Property. According to the newspaper, Igor M. had that in one case
receive a CLA Mercedes worth 200,000 PLN, as well as a flat. "GW"
he writes that Andrzej Kosztowniak should have a house whose building
financed by Roman S. and the apartment "available" in exchange for
to issue a tender for a music school. The newspaper reports that Krzysztof
Sońta would be & divers; & divers; sums & divers; & # 39; diversified ownership amounts & # 39; accept, as well as two
apartments and five building plots.
PO requests explanation from the Prime Minister and the President of the PiS regarding the "Radom scandal"
Meanwhile, PO politicians announced Thursday that they would ask for expansion
the agenda of the next meeting of the Sejm; they want the prime minister Matthew
Morawiecki at that time he made an explanation about media reports
confusion of some PiS politicians from Radom in corrupt cases.
According to PO politicians, the case must be publicly explained by the PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński.
They referred to the issue at the Thursday conference in the Sejm
PO delegates: Andrzej Halicki, Marcin Kierwiński and Mariusz Witczak.
– Today we have more information about the scandals that apply
functioning in PiS, PiS politicians and their impunity. This time it is
the question of eliminating the Radom scandal on obvious materials
evidence collected by the relevant services. This is not the first
a case of this type, which is why today during the Seniors Convention, about
the next day of the Sejm meeting in September we will submit an application
extension to a point of clarification by the prime minister of all
dismissed by the prosecutor with regard to PiS politicians –
Halicki said.
He noted that he & # 39; ambiguity & # 39; meant things like the scandal
PCK in Wrocław, Radom scandal, the question
Police, the issue of Warsaw and all other places where politicians
PiS could count on impunity because of political activity and
intervention of the public prosecutor's office ".
– These things can not be left without explanation. We demand from the prime minister
detailed explanation. This is a letter about the Seniors Convention today
I hope to support all opposition circles – said Halicki.
Witczak added: "Radom was once the most important place to be
a map of the local government PiS ", he also pointed to the current role mentioned in the
The article by Marek Suski. He said that in connection with the article the President of the PiS
Jarosław Kaczyński must publicly explain to himself what knowledge he had in connection with the scandal in Radom and to what extent he knew about it.
The PO politician also asked the PiS chairman what he did with the knowledge he had.
He stressed that if Kaczynski knew there were suspicions
PiS politicians, he should have been legally informed law enforcement agencies.
– It is interesting whether Jarosław Kaczyński was in this matter
questioned as a witness. The same goes for Marek Suski, I will remind you
one of the most important politicians in the Morawiecki government. Brands
Suski, head of structures and a person who has a certificate of integrity or
lack of integrity for some PiS politicians. This is the situation
bizarre and outrageous. Today Jaroslaw Kaczynski and we demand this from
he, he must speak publicly about this matter, because it is very much
a serious shadow fell on him in the context of the Radom affair.
We also imagine that the investigation will be resumed very soon
this issue – said Mariusz Witczak.
He stressed that both Suski and Kaczyński are not persons
entitled to "exhibit honesty certificate or defect
honesty. "
Kierwiński estimated that "alone banana republics it happens,
Which dictator decides for one person, who is guilty and who is not? "
He announced that the PO would want the Sejm to handle the case
special services committee and to explain it during his meeting
"why service workers lose their jobs after documented materials
they go to the desks of their superiors. "He estimated that the CBA is now
"Political police, which serves to hide business, not fight corruption."
MEP Nowoczesna wants to convene a committee for special services in connection with reports from "GW"
– I bring special services for convocation to the chairman of the committee
committee meetings to clarify the activities of the services related to
possible corruption of the corruption scandal in Radom – he declared on Friday
Adam Szłapka from Nowoczesna.
According to Szłapka, the article of "Wyborcza" confirms the statement that "where
PiS appears in power, there is a jump on the money. "- We are seeing this from 2015.
apparently in all state-owned enterprises and
ministries – he debated at a press conference in the Sejm.
The second conclusion derived from the publication by MEP Modern
is that PiS "is trying to use strength and resources
administrative services, including special services, to cover their own services and not
solve problems that are very serious when it comes to
corruption. "" And the CBA, I will remind you, was not made to look for hooks
protect opponents and their own, only to fight corruption –
he added.
– As a member of the commission for secret services I wrote and published a letter
to the chairman of the secret service committee for a special convocation
meeting to explain this issue – said the politician.
DECLARATION OF THE CAB
On December 9, 2013, the central anti-corruption bureau started an operational case SOR73 / 13 with regard to irregularities in Radom's office. The case was terminated in the time that Paweł Wojtunik was led by the CBA (7 August 2015). Therefore, the dissertation of "Gazeta Wyborcza" is not true, that in 2016 an officer in charge of the above the case was removed from her.
The CBA's trial procedures were started in an urgent way during the local government election campaign on 6 October 2014. The office of the public prosecutor on 17 October 2014 opened an investigation into the suspicion of corruption in connection with the activities of the Bureau. functioning of a person who fulfills the mandate of an alderman in Radom. For more than a year, when the CBA was directed by Paweł Wojtunik, no one was accused of accusations. Some of the hypotheses included in the material of the CAO, among others concerning corruption in the activities of the president of Radom Andrzej Kosztowniak, after the verification found no confirmation in the research material. Andrzej Kosztowniak himself was interviewed twice as a witness in the investigation.
To date, the investigation made allegations by 4 people, former vice president of Radom Igor M., former board member of PiS Karol S. and Kamil T. and Mirosław K. Zarzuty heard the suspects in 2017-2018. The investigation is ongoing, the Central Anticorruption Bureau carries out activities commissioned by the regional prosecutor's office in Lublin. These activities are aimed at verifying all threads in the given case.
The CBA carries out its activities on the basis of the law and decisions of the public prosecutor's office. There is and will not be a protective umbrella for persons who commit illegal activities. The CBA carries out activities regardless of the connections or positions of persons who may violate the law. To suggest that it is different is an unacceptable insinuation.
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 21, 2019 21:15:38 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 31, 2020 18:51:18 GMT 1
During teachers` strike last year, PiS Marshall of Senate said they should work for ideals, not commercial reasons. tvn24.pl/tvn24-news-in-english/marshal-of-the-senate-says-teachers-should-work-for-ideals-not-money-ra927229-2313787Now curious news has surfaced. The Marshall, while working as a professional Sejm member, took on-call hours in a hospital (he is a doctor by profession) and earned additional 400.000 PLN from 2009-2015. It was against the law. If we learn about such things now when PiS is in power, I wonder what will be revealed after they lose it. That will be Armageddon. All PiS criminal acts have to be investigated and their perpetrators put on trial. Including top PiS politicians. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 3, 2020 11:51:40 GMT 1
How unsurprising! It will always be one rule for us and another one for them. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 3, 2020 19:26:39 GMT 1
How unsurprising! It will always be one rule for us and another one for them. You mean they are like swine from the book? |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 4, 2020 12:18:25 GMT 1
Animal Farm I presume? Yes, there is not much difference....
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 10, 2020 1:20:11 GMT 1
Animal Farm I presume? Yes, there is not much difference.... Yes, those cliched quotes from the book are immortal and perfectly illustrate PiS approach to the state and society. Rightwingers have some flaw in personality, they really believe that when they show their faith in public and make priests aid them in election campaigns and later on, too, they are allowed to do anything.  |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 12, 2020 23:13:28 GMT 1
those cliched quotes from the book are immortal and perfectly illustrate PiS approach to the state and society Very true. The Conservatives are heading that way too. A couple of years of Boris, and maybe there won't be too much difference between tne two parties. Rightwingers have some flaw in personality, Yes, they are too loud and too in your face. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 4, 2022 17:31:16 GMT 1
www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/pis-oddal-ostroleke-swoim-ludziom-zatopili-elektrownie-zarobili-miliony/f3ke4qn,79cfc278
ONET WIADOMOŚCI KRAJ
PiS gave Ostrołęka over to its people. They sank the power plant, but made millions
PiS politicians assure that the government's flagship investment - the Ostrołęka C coal power plant - has collapsed due to the EU's pro-ecological policy. But instead of experts to manage the investment, they delegated local party activists and their acolytes to stuff their pockets - we read in the article oto.press.
December 12, 2021, 21:20
PiS politicians accused the PO-PSL government that it had abandoned the Ostrołęka C project, another coal-fired unit at the local power plant. Thus, he wasted PLN 400 million spent on construction preparations. Kaczyński's party resumed the investment. And after six years of her rule, the balance of losses related to Ostrołęka C has already reached PLN 1.35 billion
Now PiS politicians keep repeating that they have nothing to complain about, and the project collapsed for reasons beyond their control - mainly due to the anti-carbon policy of the EU. In fact, in resurrecting him, they disregarded experts' opinions from the beginning and were guided by political gain
The entire Ostrołęka power plant became a raft on which the local political system drifted after the lost local elections. By the way, collecting substantial salaries. At least a dozen people associated with PiS in Ostrołęka have made their way into the energy sector
More such information can be found on the main page of Onet.pl
During the 2015 election campaign, the 50,000-strong Ostrołęka was visited by the most important politicians of Jarosław Kaczyński's party, including himself. It was here that the "agency" of PiS was to face the "impossibilism" of the PO.
PiS wanted to fight nepotism, but it ended with a resolution
"Power station. Here in Ostrołęka. Which was created during the rule of Law and Justice. And its construction was stopped in 2012. Today, the wind is blowing on this construction site. (...) It is a crime that (this - ed.) Investment has been abandoned "- exclaimed Andrzej Duda in February 2015.
“There was supposed to be a beautiful, wonderful power plant here. Today we have a plot that is covered with bushes. (…) A new power plant in Ostrołęka should be built on this plot and I declare to you that it will be built, ”Beata Szydło said a few months later.
PiS politicians accused the PO-PSL government that it had abandoned the Ostrołęka C project, another coal-fired unit at the local power plant. Thus, he wasted PLN 400 million spent on construction preparations.
Kaczyński's party resumed the investment. And after six years of her rule, the balance of losses related to Ostrołęka C has already reached PLN 1.35 billion.
Now PiS politicians keep repeating that they have nothing to complain about, and the project collapsed for reasons beyond their control - mainly due to the anti-carbon policy of the EU. In fact, in resurrecting him, they disregarded experts' opinions from the beginning and were guided by political advantages. And to implement the project, they delegated people who were politically "proven", but either unprepared for this role or looking for an opportunity to do their own business.
The coalition PiS monument collapses with a bang. One billion zlotys is not the end of expenses
The brain behind this operation was Arkadiusz Czartoryski, MP from Ostrołęka - the gray eminence in the city and an ardent supporter of the power plant (until recently in PiS, now in Adam Bielan's Republican Party).
In the years 2016-2020, under the supervision of Czartoryski, his trusted people were delegated to manage Ostrołęka C: Edward S., who was charged with corruption in 2020 by the prosecutor's office, Adam Galanek, who cheated on his previous employer, and today, despite his lack of experience in the energy sector, is making a lightning-fast career in this industry and Janusz Kotowski, former mayor of the city, a catechist by education.
The entire Ostrołęka power plant became a raft on which the local political system drifted after the lost local elections. By the way, collecting substantial salaries. At least a dozen people associated with PiS in Ostrołęka have made their way into the energy sector.
Charges and arrest for the former president
In 2016, on the recommendation of MP Czartoryski, Edward S.
At this stage, it is worth explaining that the Ostrołęka power plant is not one entity, but four companies managed by Energa. Apart from the Ostrołęka Power Plant, these are also: Energa Elektrownie Ostrołęka (hereinafter abbreviated as: EEO) - coordinating the works of a coal-fired power plant from 1972 (block B), Energa Serwis - established in 2011 to carry out repairs at EEO and Energa Ciepło - distributing heat energy in Ostrołęka (formerly Ostrołęckie Przedsiębiorstwo Energetyki Cieplnej - OPEC).
Edward S. was associated with the old power plant for many years, and previously he was the vice president of OPEC for a long time. In the years 2007-2009 he managed the EEO company, and then - in 2011-2012 - the Energa Serwis company.
It turned out that S., in addition to experience in the industry, also has a disturbing tendency towards shady businesses.
In 2019, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna revealed that a decade earlier, with the consent of Edward S., the old power plant had been buying Russian coal at inflated prices. Already in 2010, Krzysztof Majkowski, a former PiS senator and long-term EEO employee, informed the prosecutor's office about the case. However, the proceedings were discontinued.
In subsequent notifications, Majkowski wrote to the prosecutor's office, inter alia, that the private company of Edward S.'s sons - Eko Energetyka i Ciepłownictwo (hereinafter: "Eko EiC") - received orders from Energi Serwis, a company whose president until November 2012 was Edward S .
In an interview with Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, he explained that his sons started the business after he was dismissed from the Energi Serwis management board. And the company's share of work for the power plant was "insignificant".
Indeed, Eko EiC was not registered until May 2013. Perhaps it was not a significant contractor for Energi Serwis. But, as the Eko EiC reports show, the state-owned company was a key client for her in the following years and, to a large extent, made profits thanks to it.
After in 2019 "DGP" publishes an article about Eko EiC, Edward S. loses the chairman of the Ostrołęka Power Plant.
In September 2020, the CBA detains Edward S., his son Bartosz and associate Krzysztof S. (an employee of "Eko"), as well as the deputy director of PGE Dystrybucja, Tomasz B.
The latter company belongs to the state-controlled PGE group. The investigation concerns orders that it placed with Eko EiC, previously sharing with this company the information needed to win the tender - reported TVN24. The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Białystok charged Edward S. and three other men with corruption charges in this case. The investigation is ongoing.
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Adam Galanek's lightning-fast career
The departure of Edward S. from the Ostrołęka Power Plant is only the beginning of staff reshuffles.
In March 2019, the chairman is taken over by Adam Galanek (born 1980), for years associated with PiS, a multiple candidate in the local elections. And the son of a friend of Arkadiusz Czartoryski - Józef Galanek, a councilor and businessman. Years ago, thanks to this acquaintance, Adam Galanek got a job in the Marshal's Office.
In 2007, when PiS won the elections in Ostrołęka and Janusz Kotowski became president, Adam Galanek took the position of vice-president in the Ostrołęka Society for Social Housing. From 2014 to 2016, he was the president of OTBS.
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The aforementioned Krzysztof Majkowski, who in 2021 worked as an auditor at OTBS for several months, believes that during his tenure, Galanek had cheated the company.
In 2011, he submitted an application for the allocation of a 38-meter flat. He got them at an express pace - two days after submitting the application. According to Majkowski's findings, Galanek rented someone's flat, although TBS regulations prohibit subletting. In addition, he had been behind with the participation deposit (over PLN 30,000) for several years. Although he should pay the deposit by December 2011, he did not pay the last installment until November 2016, when he was no longer working at OTBS.
Although Galanek did not have any experience in the energy sector, in 2016 he became vice-president of Energa Elektrownie Ostrołęka, the company managing the old power plant. In June 2017, he moved to the position of vice president of Energa Wytwarzanie in Pruszcz Gdański (currently Energa OZE).
He earns better and better - in 2017, his income is already 580 thousand. zloty.
At TBS, he still pays a preferential rent rate - although his account is credited with an amount three times higher than the limit for paying a lower rate for an apartment. In the income declaration submitted on August 30, 2018 for TBS Galanek, he does not show his substantial salary, using the "confidentiality clause". And he continues to pay a preferential rate for the apartment.
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He reflects only at the beginning of 2019, shortly after the election defeat of President Janusz Kotowski, when the new president begins cleaning city companies - including OTBS - of PiS people. Ultimately, from February 2019, the company increases his rent by 197 percent. In September 2021, President Łukasz Kulik informs the prosecutor's office in Ostrołęka about Krzysztof Majkowski's findings regarding Galanka's rent and deposit. According to the information we obtained from the prosecutor's office, the case is still under investigation.
But in the meantime - in November 2019 - Adam Galanek becomes the president of the Ostrołęka Power Plant. The company already has serious financial problems then, and Galanek is not an outstanding expert in either management or energy.
He performs the function of the president of Ostrołęka C to this day. Because although the project was closed in February 2020, Elektrownia Ostrołęka is still operating - it is to settle its coal failure by the end of the year. But Galanek also has a new job: the CCGT company owned by Energa, which is to build a gas-fired power plant in place of the demolished block C.
First, he became its president, and from September 2021 he is a member of the management board.
We wanted to talk to Adam Galanek about his contacts with PiS politicians, irregularities related to OTBS and his career in energy companies. In the secretariat of Elektrownia Ostrołęka, we only heard that Galanek recommends us to contact the spokesman of Energa in business matters, and he does not want to comment on "private" matters. When asked about the reasons for employing Galanka in CCGT, Energa replies that "he does not comment on personnel matters".
The entire power plant is in the hands of PiS from Ostrołęka
In the same year as Galanek - i.e. in 2019 - Janusz Kotowski joins the board of the shaky Ostrołęka C. He is Arkadiusz Czartoryski's trusted man and the PiS president for many years. A catechist by education and a would-be priest.
In 2018, he became famous all over the country, forbidding the screening of Wojciech Smarzowski's "Kler" in the only cinema in the city. Then he explained that the decision was made by the local government, not by itself.
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In the fall of 2018, Kotowski lost the fight for the presidency to the independent candidate Łukasz Kulik. A few months later - in May 2019 - he joined the board of Ostrołęka C. He worked in it until August 31, 2020. According to the calculations of the "Moja Ostrołęka" portal, during 15 months of his term of office, he earned between PLN 675,000 there. PLN and PLN 1.1 million. Today he is the acting director of the Cursed Soldiers Museum in Ostrołęka.
After Kotowski's election defeat, many of his people were dismissed from office and communal companies. But they too quickly found a haven in the Ostrołęka power plant. The reshuffers in their positions were described in detail by the local media, including portals "Moja Ostrołęka", eOstroleka.pl and "Tygodnik Ostrołęcki".
The position of the president of Energa Serwis was taken over by Dariusz O., previously president of Ostrołęka Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji for 10 years.
Ewa Waszkiewicz-Sznyter - a PiS member, during Kotowski's reign, the city treasurer and a member of the supervisory board of Ostrołęckie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunalny, became the vice-president of Energa Serwis.
Robert Juchniewicz became the supply manager at Energa Serwis - after Kotowski was the head of the Municipal Board of Sports and Tourist Facilities and Technical Infrastructure. He is a PiS activist and former head of the parliamentary office of Arkadiusz Czartoryski.
In December 2018, Grzegorz Płocha from PiS, the vice-president of Ostrołęka from Kotowski's time, and a catechist by education, was appointed the director of the EEO board office. According to the findings of Tygodnik Ostrołęcki, the position at EEO was created especially for him.
In 2019, in place of Płocha, another PiS member was appointed the director of the board office - Grzegorz Makowiecki, a theology graduate, former deputy director of the Municipal Family Assistance Center and former president of OTBS.
In December 2018, Ewa Żebrowska-Rosak, a PiS councilor, a specialist in agricultural production, became the financial director of EEO. Previously, in 2016-2017, she was a supervisory board member of the company building the C power plant. In 2020, Żebrowska-Rosak was appointed EEO's proxy.
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In 2018, Bogdan Piątkowski got the job of a communication specialist in the company building Ostrołęka C. During the reign of Janusz Kotowski, he was the director of the Ostrołęka Cultural Center, and previously had been an employee of this center for many years.
Some of Kotowski and Czartoryski's people ended up in the power plant before his election defeat, but after PiS won the national elections.
In 2016, Energa Ciepło's vice-president was his trusted associate Monika Chojnowska, previously vice-president at OTBS and Adam Galanka's deputy, just like Galanek, accused of lowering her income.
In the same year, Katarzyna Kamińska, the wife of the local PiS activist Stanisław Sylwester Kamiński, dealt with energy. From an employee of the Poviat Labor Office, Kamińska was promoted to vice-president of EEO.
In 2016-2019, the president of Energa Serwis was Łukasz Chrostowski (born in 1988), son of Ryszard Chrostowski, a PiS member and a trusted man from MP Czartoryski.
Since 2016, Wojciech Żebrowski (he is its chairman) sits on the EEO supervisory board. He is a member of PiS and a long-time employee of the Polish Post office in Ostrołęka. Previously, he unsuccessfully ran for a city councilor.
In the power plant companies, Kotowski and Czartoryski's people earned hundreds of thousands of zlotys a year. However, many of them had to say goodbye to lucrative jobs when Orlen took over Energa in 2020.
This does not mean, however, that people associated with PiS no longer work in the Ostrołęka energy sector. In 2021, Beata Kalinowska, a former director of the Mazovian branch of the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture, became the vice-president of EEO. In 2019-2021, she was a member of the management board of the SOLINO Salt Mines in Inowrocław.
Czartoryski feels "disappointed"
Today - when there is no trace of the 120-meter pylons of Ostrołęka C - some of Arkadiusz Czartoryski and Janusz Kotowski work in other state-owned companies or run their own businesses. Some are investigated by the prosecutor's office.
As the official reason for the failure of the PiS project, he indicates "a change in regulatory and economic conditions, incl. climate policy of the European Union ”. Which the government it says it simply couldn't foresee.
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Interestingly, although the Ostrołęka C project was buried in 2020, the Elektrownia Ostrołęka company is still operating.
In 2020, it employed 42 people from various industries, including a four-person management board, including Adam Galanek. It spent PLN 11.3 million on employee salaries, including derivatives.
The results for 2021 will not be known to the public until the middle of next year. A spokesman for Energa refused to disclose our workforce and salary expenses in 2021. He only explained that the settlement of a failed power plant requires “maintaining the optimal employment status of engineers and specialists”.
In addition to internal settlements, the company is audited by the Supreme Audit Office. In June 2021, NIK President Marian Banaś said that the auditors were finishing their work. He announced that the Chamber would submit a mismanagement notification to the prosecutor's office.
- There are big irregularities. The investment has not been completed and huge amounts of money have been spent. The costs are on the shoulders of the citizens. The question is who is responsible for it - commented Banaś on TOK FM radio.
Exactly who? Arkadiusz Czartoryski tells us on the phone that he does not feel responsible. Instead, he is "disappointed" that block C will not be created.
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Date Created: December 12, 2021, 21:20
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