Nałęcz denies clash of interests in Rywin inquiry

"There is nothing I can be held accountable for," commented deputy speaker Tomasz Nałęcz in connection with the allegation that he had been earning money through Muza, a publishing house controlled by Włodzimierz Czarzasty, the secretary of the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV). As the chairman of the Sejm inquiry commission investigating the Rywin affair, Nałęcz questioned Czarzasty, with whom it transpires he had mutual business interests. Three years ago the deputy speaker published a book entitled 20th Century History, however this information is unaccounted for in the Sejm register. Moreover, Nalęcz does not conceal the fact that he has known the KRRiTV secretary and TVP president Robert Kwiatkowski for years. Though Nałęcz believes there is nothing he can be held accountable for, Law and Justice (PiS) deputy Marek Jurek thinks otherwise. In his view, the deputy speaker's close relationship with the two witnesses is controversial, while veiling the fact that he had had a book published by Muza is unequivocally deplorable.(www.rmf.pl) A.C.