NIK to investigate investments in TV Puls after request from SLD deputies

The Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) will investigate whether four companies with State Treasury shareholdings were entitled to invest their capital in Telewizja Familijna, producer of the TV Puls channel. The application submitted to the NIK chairman was signed by 11 deputies representing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). The four companies, PKN Orlen, Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne, PZU Zycie and KGHM Metale, contributed zl.91 million and will invest the same amount in the form of a guaranteed loan in the next few months. In the view of the deputies, the companies invested public money in a "careless"manner, since they did not verify either the basic economic presumptions of the undertaking or its legal ramifications. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) M. S.-C.