NIK reveals scandalous levels of corruption in flood damage repair programs

The Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) has presented preliminary losses incurred by the state due to the scandalously corrupt exercise undertaken to repair the damage caused by the floods of 1997. According to NIK, most of the projects were undertaken in defiance of budgetary common sense and at times in clear breach of building regulations. Most of the local government institutions charged with implementing the repair programs repeatedly broke the public tender laws through commissioning dubious companies to undertake major projects at costs that have not been clearly documented. NIK has asked the prosecutor's office to investigate at least five cases where gross mismanagement of public finances is evident. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 8) S.M.