Court date is latest chapter in Wirtualna Polska wrangle

Today Bogdanowicz's attorney will issue a summons against the portal's manager to the arbitration court at the National Telecommunication and IT Office (PIIiT). He wants the court to determine if the registration of domains in wp.pl did not violate his client's rights. "The lawsuit blocks the process of selling Wirtualna Polska's assets, and in case there is a voting over the possible agreement between the portal and its creditors it also enables us to question the validity of the resolutions," said Robert Kroplewski, Bogdanowicz's attorney. On August 2 the creditors of the bankrupt portal are going to vote over two possible agreements, each of which envisages paying off of the whole of the portal's debt that now stand at around zł.6.2 million. Analysts believe that Bogdanowicz has little chance of winning the case and think that this is just another stage of the quarrel between wp.pl's founders, which has been running on since 1999. (Puls Biznesu, p. 40) A.F.