Police find plane tickets in search of Wieczerzak homes
In a search yesterday of five apartments belonging to former president of
PZU Zycie Grzegorz Wieczerzak, police found two plane tickets with
reservations for a July 24 flight to Paris, as well as foreign currencies
worth zl.500,000. Wieczerzak, who holds dual Polish and French citizenship,
was detained yesterday by officers from the Central Intelligence Office
(CBS) after they received information that he was about to flee the country.
The Prosecutor's Office will decide today whether to apply to the court for
Wieczerzak's formal arrest. At the time of the police search of his
apartments, Wieczerzak was being questioned by the prosecutor. According to
Justice Minister Stanislaw Iwanicki, the losses to the State Treasury caused
by the PZU affair can be estimated at hundreds of millions of zloty.
(Rzeczpospolita, p. A1, Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) P.W.