Board offices bugged and threats received at PZU S.A.

Yesterday the Warsaw prosecutor's office reported that two months ago secret monitoring devices had been found in the offices of members of the new board of directors of Polski Zaklad Ubezpieczen S.A. (PZU S.A.). In an interview with daily Gazeta Wyborcza, PZU S.A.head Jerzy Zdrzalka suggested that the person connected with the affair is Wladyslaw Jamrozy, former company president. The State Security Office (UOP), now looking into the case, has found bills for the "bugs" installed in electric sockets in several offices. According to the dates on the receipts, the equipment was purchased in 1999 when Jamrozy was still president. Moreover, several members of the PZU S.A. board of directors, including Zdrzalka, say they have been receiving hostile SMS's, clearly aimed at scaring the addressees. PZU S.A. has also disclosed that it is now in possession of documents proving an insurance journalist had been hired to procure suspicious materials, but no names have been revealed. The whole affair has even touched the Sejm, where deputies received envelopes allegedly sent by Government Center for Information (CIR) containing materials blaming the government for losing control over privatization of PZU S.A., and suggesting the whole deal should now be taken care of by the Sejm. CIR denies any involvement. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B2; Gazeta Wyborcza, pp.1,20)