Finance Ministry officials arrested in corruption case

The officials are accused of taking bribes for issuing decisions which exempted certain companies from tax or annulled their tax debts. The value of the bribes fluctuated between zł.20,000 to zł.130,000. According to the Ministry of Justice, the officials were bribed by Janusz G., one of the gangsters from Pruszków. They annulled the tax debts of the companies associated with him and provided him with confidential information about the planned activities of the Finance Ministry. "There was a structure of criminals and businessmen … which operated within the Ministry. We will soon discover all persons involved in the crime," declared Minister of Justice Zbigiew Ziobro. "The years-long corrupt practices at the Ministry of Finance are over, he added. "Those who did not believe in the existence of the structure have the real proof now."  (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) E.B.