NIK: Stanislaw Alot lied about terms of Prokom-ZUS agreement

Stanislaw Alot, former head of the Social Insurance Company (ZUS), lied to Labor Minister Longin Komolowski, according to a report penned by the Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK), the daily Rzeczpospolita has learned. Alot deliberately misled the minister when he asserted that computer integrator Prokom, contracted to create an information system for ZUS, had agreed to receiving less for the system after certain changes were introduced to it. In fact, the price for the system was never lowered. An addendum outlining the actual provisions of the Prokom-ZUS agreement was known by only a handful of the ZUS president's closest colleagues. The report suggests that the Labor Ministry was unable to manage ZUS due to Alot 's deception. And since the agreement was concealed in this way, the ministry was not able to evaluate it. Consequently, implementing the new information system was far more expensive than expected. (Rzeczpospolita, pp.A1,A5) M.K.