NIK uncovers compensation fund managers illegal bonus payments

Between 1998-2000 the management of the Pojednanie Polish-German Fund, which was set up to compensate Poles used as slave labor in the third reich during the Second World War, received illegal quarterly bonuses, claims the Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK). Although the control was conducted and completed last year, its results have not yet been published. According to NIK the deputy head of the fund, Jan Parys and its secretary Andrzej Tłomacki, received over zł. 94,000 each. They are still in charge of the fund. Its president, Jacek Turczyński received over zł. 79,000 up to 2000. In total, over zł. 362,000 was spent on illegal bonuses. The fund's managers granted bonuses to themselves despite the fact that the management's remuneration policy, approved by Treasury Minister, did not envisaged granting any bonuses. According to unofficial news in Rzeczpospolita, the fund also incurred zł. 4 million losses due to the fact that part of the funds were placed in a Swiss bank account in 2000. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) A.Z.