Justice Min: major deals to be investigated - gas pipeline, TPSA and PZU

Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Lech Kaczynski announced that prosecutors will launch an investigation into several of the largest deals approved by the government in recent years. Prosecutors will institute an inquiry into the issue of the fiber optic cable running along the gas pipeline linking Russia with Western Europe as well as the privatization of Poland's largest insurer Panstwowy Zaklad Ubezpieczen (PZU) and telecom giant Telecomunikacja Polska S.A. (TP SA). The fibre optic cable running through the Polish territory was allegedly built without permission of Polish authorities. "Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG) was supposed to be the only operator of the network," said Kaczynski. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p.4) A.Z.