Jamrozy lands lucrative job before being cleared at PZU
The suspended president of the insurer Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen (PZU)
Wladyslaw Jamrozy has been appointed head of the state lottery Totolotka.
The junior coalition partner Freedom Union (UW) and the opposition
Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) have criticized the decision by Treasury
Minister Emil Wasacz to appoint Jamrozy who is currently being investigated
for irregularities in how PZU behaved during the controversial takeover bid
of BIG Bank Gdanski (BIG BG) by Deutsche Bank. The outgoing Totolotka
president Slawomir Sykucki, who has affiliations to SLD, was an
uncomfortable fit for Solidarity Election Action (AWS) and hence the
speculation that AWS could have wanted to dispose of Sykucki on the eve of
the expiry of Totolotka's contract with the American computer firm GTech.
According to the daily Gazeta Wyborcza sources, GTech had placed their
executive jet at President Aleksander Kwasniewski's disposal during one of
his visits to the U.S. It is feared that the company could help finance
Kwasniewski's re-election next year. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1,
Rzeczpospolita, page A6) S.M.
