Klemba may return to give testimony after court grants him amnesty
Former military secret service officer Jerzy Klemba may return to Poland
from Venezuela, after a district court yesterday granted him an amnesty.
Klemba says that he has important information to reveal on the Foreign
Liabilities Handling Fund (FOZZ) affair. In the TV documentary "Drama in
Three Stages" Klemba claimed that at the beginning of the 90s he was giving
money from the FOZZ to the leaders of the Center Alliance (PC), one of whom,
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, denied the charges and took the matter to court. Klemba,
along with Heathclif Pineiro, was subsequently accused of embezzling funds
from the Impexmetal company to the tune of almost zl.2 million, and of
fraudulently obtaining a further zl.800,000 from Bank Depozytowo-Kredytowy
in Lublin. Pineiro was sentenced to three months in prison over the affair.
Klemba, who had gone to live abroad, declared that he would give evidence on
the FOZZ affair, should he be granted an amnesty. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4)
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