Presidential adviser Kuszewski investigated over health con links

The Warsaw-based prosecutor is currently investigating whether the former Deputy Health Minister and current adviser to the President, Krzysztof Kuszewski, had known about the connection between another former Deputy Health Minister and president of the National Health Fund (NFZ), Aleksander Nauman, and the drug equipment affair which took place in the nineties and whether he tried to warn Nauman about an approaching inspection of officials. Yesterday radio RMF FM announced that eight years ago Kuszewski had called Nauman's father and told him: "It is rather too loud about the affair in the top officials' environment." Following this information Aleksander Nauman allegedly left Poland to stay in Switzerland for a year. Kuszewski declared that he made the phone call but was not trying to warn anyone as it was "public knowledge" and only asked whether the case involved the son of his colleague Janusz Nauman. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.K.