Ministry prepares to sack LOT management board

The Treasury Ministry yesterday announced that it requested national carrier LOT to arrange a Shareholders Meeting during which the Ministry plans to change the composition of the management board. "According to information and suspicion of illegal activities, the Treasury Minister has lost his trust in members of LOT's board and believes that further cooperation with them is impossible," read the statement. According to the Ministry, the board members had no right to receive additional payments from the SAirGroup. In mid February Gazeta Wyborcza announced that seven board members had received over CHF 1 million between September 2000 and October 2001 for consulting services. (Puls Biznesu, p. 13; www.onet.pl) A.K.