Boxer comes out swinging against Warsaw official, civil service hits back

The renowned Polish boxer, Przemyslaw Saleta, is accusing one of the Municipal Roads Board (ZDM) employees of asking for a $10,000 bribe for permission to open a summer garden in a sports restaurant in downtown Warsaw. At first, the board did not answer Saleta's enquiry for more than a month. Saleta and his two partners went to the board's office. "We were forwarded to Robert Skiba, who told us that the answer was no. He also said that we should ask about the price in town. I asked him how much it was. He replied that $10,000 was the minimum." Saleta wrote a letter to Warsaw mayor Pawel Piskorski. After that, the head of ZDM Tomasz Szawlowski filed a case with the prosecutor's office, stating that Saleta attempted to bribe the employee. Today Saleta will be questioned on the case. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1)