Treasury Minister resigns amid financial scam accusation

The daily wrote that Mikosz's wife granted a loan to the mother of Witold W., the investor accused of manipulating the price of the listed Kopex. In the morning Mikosz issued a statement in which he declared that "The material is loaded with half-truths which aim at creating a sensation and present me and my family in a bad light," but nevertheless he submitted his resignation to the Prime Minister several hours later. Premier Marcinkiewicz accepted the resignation in the evening. The rumour about the possible resignation of Mikosz appeared several weeks earlier as he was criticized by some Law and Justice (PiS) leading members as well as representatives of the PiS parliamentary ally, the League of Polish Families (LPR). PiS politicians declare that a new Treasury Minister will not alter the government's privatizations strategy nor the government's position in the dispute with Eureko and Unicredito. "Mikosz implemented the party's concepts and I do not think that a new minister would do otherwise," stated Paweł Poncyliusz from PiS. (Parkiet, p.1; Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 3) E.B.