Special government commission to investigate corruption scandal in Silesia

A special government commission headed by Interior Minister Marek Biernacki will investigate a corruption scandal in the Office of the Silesian Voivode, revealed by Rzeczpospolita last Saturday. A group of Silesian Voivode Marek Kempski's closest aides are charged with fraud and abuse of their positions. Two small companies headed by Kempski's aides, Bohurex and Polcar, embezzled money from the state bus company PKS. The Zywiec branch of PKS sold buses at absurdly low prices to Bohurex, which in turn sold them to Polcar. The latter leased them back to PKS for zl.9,000 a month. This was all possible because PKS was managed by an temporary administrator, Kazimierz Salamun, who was also part of the swindle and was arrested on Saturday. Kempski said that if these reports prove true, he will resign and likely leave politics altogether. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A3) T.J.