TVP executive promoted despite pending trial

Deputy economic director of Polish television channel TVP in Bialystok, Izydor G., who has been accused by prosecutors of financial irregularities, has not been fired, but given the position of acting financial-production director and general accountant. "It is good practice to dismiss people who are discredited or accused of acting against the interests of the company," Jaroslaw Najmola wrote to the management of TVP on behalf of television trade unions. Company spokesperson Jacek Snopkiewicz said that generally the opinion of the union was correct, but in the letter of law the person was still innocent. Former director of TVP's Bialystok region, Krzysztof J., administration director Andrzej P. and Izydor G. are soon to face charges of using company money to organize a private party and telling their subordinates to cover up the fact by falsifying documents. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) M.M.