Interbrok Investment directors arrested on fraud charges

One of the arrested men was the deputy minister of communications in a former SLD government. The company, which was founded in 1998 and boasted EUR 400 million under management, mainly invested in forex markets and operated largely under secrecy for an exclusive group of wealthy clients such as former sports personalities and former politicians. Although on paper, the company's investments generated decent and initially very high returns, it is suspected of having operated a double-accounting system. Meanwhile, its owners engaged in conspicuous consumption. The CBS raid was reportedly prompted by a tip-off that the men may be about to flee the country. (Puls Biznesu, p. 1, 4-5; Parkiet, p. 1; Rzeczpospolita, p. A5; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 31) R.M.