PKN Orlen claims official report disproves illegal financing allegations

A spokesperson for PKN Orlen has said that an official investigation has failed to reveal any evidence that the oil and gas giant illegally funded the election campaign of former Solidarity Election Action (AWS) leader Marian Krzaklewski. Katarzyna Majchrzak, from PKN Orlen's public relations department, said, "The inspection conducted by the Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) could not confirm the accusations made by Wiadomosci about PKN Orlen's illegal financing of Marian Krzaklewski's campaign." Commenting on behalf of NIK, spokesperson Malgorzata Pomianowska said, "I don't confirm or deny the information." On January 10, TVP's Wiadomosci news program accused PKN Orlen of illegally donating zl.20 million to Marian Krzaklewski' s presidential campaign. Krzaklewski and PKN Orlen described the report, based on anonymous sources, as nonsense and took the case to court. PKN Orlen is demanding that TVP pay damages, in the form of a zl.20 million donation to charity. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) N.V.D.