Arrest warrant issued for runaway former parliamentary deputy Kolasinski

The Public Prosecutor's Office has issued an international warrant for the arrest of Marek Kolasinski, former Solidarity Election Action (AWS) deputy to the Sejm. Kolasinski, who is accused of serious financial crimes including one involving VAT fraud, escaped from Poland on October 17, two days before his parliamentary immunity expired. He spent a few days in a hotel he owns in the Czech Republic, and is now believed to have gone to Italy. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) M.K.