Self-Defense presses for special commission to investigate Orlengate

Late last week, Gazeta Wyborcza revealed that Prime Minister Leszek Miller knew about the arrest conducted by the State Security Office (UOP) which was intended to block an unfavorable contract for delivery of oil from Russia. The case is currently being investigated by the Sejm special forces commission, which already interviewed the former president of Orlen and a former treasury minister Wiesław Kaczmarek, who revealed the story, and the prosecutor. The head of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) Andrzej Barcikowski said on Friday that UOP warned several times that Orlen, with its monopolistic powers, was trying to base all its oil sources from one supplier - namely Russia, which endangered the economic security of Poland. (www.pb.pl) A.K.