TVP's Film Agency investigated by ABW as part of Rywin enquiry

The Internal Security Agency (ABW) inspected Polish Television's (TVP) Film Agency on the basis of order from Sejm Rywin Investigation Committee, in order to see if its transactions with Lew Rywin were real. On Thursday, TVP informed that all contracts of its agency were made in accordance with existing procedures. TVP's share in all 16 co-productions amounted to zł. 44.4 million over 2001-2002. Four of those were produced in cooperation with Lew Rywin's Heritage Films and TVP invested zł. 21.2 million in those movies. According to internal auditors of the company, TVP's share in production of five movies increased in total by zł. 3.5 million, as a result of increasing costs of laboratory work, or the necessity of making a a dditional episodes of the "Wiedźmin" and "Przedwiośnie" TV series. (Gazeta Wyborcza, April 19-21, p. 31) M.M.