Polkomtel's CEO resigns amid bitter recriminations

"We decided that it will be necessary to look for a person who will boost the value of the company and who will carry out a strategy envisaging that by 2008 Polkomtel becomes the most valuable mobile phone operator in the country," said Andrzej Szczepek, head of Polkomtel's supervisory board and deputy president of KGHM Polska Miedź. The Treasury Ministry is far more critical in its assessment of Jarosław Pachowski. "In our opinion he did not fulfill his business role well. Polkomtel is drifting - the operator dropped to third position, while its competitor Era has a conflict among its shareholders," said Barbara Kasprzycka, spokeswoman of the Treasury Ministry. The new president will be chosen by an advisory company, while for the time being the company will be run by Mirosław Bielicki, deputy president of Polkomtel. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 6) M.M.