Board members registered in the latest round of the battle to control PKO Orlen

It has emerged that Warsaw's register court formally noted the names of Jacek Bartkiewicz (president of BGŻ) and Krzysztof Żyndul (president of Nafta Polska) as members of the supervisory board of the PKN Orlen oil giant on Thursday. According to Puls Biznesu their election was questioned by the largest individual shareholder Jan Kulczyk. The move suggests that Kulczyk is slowly losing his battle with the state for control over Orlen. "The decision to register them is not legally binding and the parties have two weeks to appeal against the decision," said a source from the register court. President of Kulczyk Holding Jan Waga would not comment on the decision. However, he said that the appointments of Bartkiewicz and Żyndul to the supervisory board are being investigated by the commercial court in Warsaw. The new supervisory board was responsible for sacking Jacek Walczykowski from the post of Orlen CEO. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 3) M.M.