President Kwaśniewski to appear before Orlen Commission March 8

The date was selected by the Presidential Office as the previous one, set for late February, chosen by the Commission collided with Kwaśniewski's visit to Germany. This will be the first time in history a President is called before a commission which has the powers of the prosecutor and can call any witness. This failed to happen in the previous commission which was investigating the Rywin affair, because most of the members were left wing and the President was also against such a move. The PKN Orlen Commission wants to find out what the President knew about the changes in the board of the Płock concern, how he evaluated Jan Kulczyk's engagement in the oil sector, and why he did not react when, according to the secret services, the Poznań's businessman discussed the President's role in talks with Russian spy Vladimir Alganov. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.K.