Deputy under investigation for fraud flees country before immunity expires

Former Solidarity Election Action (AWS) Sejm deputy Marek Kolasinski has fle d Poland, just before his parliamentary immunity expired. Prosecutors have a lready arrested Kolasinski's girlfriend, son and brother, after charging his company ItalmarCa with multi-million zloty tax and credit fraud. Police offi cers had been waiting to arrest Kolasinski after his immunity expired with t he swearing in of the new parliament. "We have established that he left Pola nd on Wednesday, shortly after 4 pm. He was using a diplomatic passport, mea ning that he was practically untouchable," said an officer with the Silesian police, who are investigating the case. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Oct. 20-21, p. 4) T.J.