Former ZUS heads under investigation for abuse of power over IT system

A prosecutor is to investigate whether successive Social Insurance Company (ZUS) bosses from Anna Bankowska through to Stanislaw Alot abused their powers in selecting Prokom S.A. to computerize ZUS. The investigation was launched Sept. 22, on the report of the daily Rzeczpospolita and findings of the Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) concerning irregularities in the tender for a new IT system at ZUS. Rzeczpospolita also published information implicating ZUS bosses for yielding to pressure from individuals, allegedly with criminal records, who lobbied for Prokom. Its is also alleged that ZUS ignored expert advice from a team at the Information Technology Institute of the Poznan Technical University who had negatively assessed the Prokom system. (Rzeczpospolita, Sept. 23-24, page A2)