Polkomtel: four management board members suspended

The Supervisory Board of the mobile phone operator, Polkomtel, has suspended four out of the seven members of its management board, including its c hairman, who opposed a government plan to push the mobile operator into fixed-line telephony. The suspended directors are: Chairman Marek Mroc zkowski, IT Director Wladyslaw Wilkans, Financial Director Jaspers Larsen and Marketing Director Lars Andersen. During the meeting yesterday, the board nominated current member Andrzej Szczepek to become acting chairman of the management board, while another management board member John Treuge resigned. As only two of the original management board members are left, the meeting of the supervisory board and the general shareholders meeting were postponed until April 12. By then, the sides are to "do their best to appoint a new management board", said a statement released after the m eeting. Polish representatives of the state shareholders of Polkomtel, which control 60.7 % of the shares, are in agreement with the Treasury Minister and want Polkomtel to expand into fixed-line telephony. They also accuse the management board on earning too high profits of zl.590 million in 2001, at the cost of suppressing investments and dropping its market share. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 4, Reuters), M.T.