UOP report on the men and money behind controversial investments

A 2001 State Security Office (UOP) report on Vahap Toy (who plans to invest $6 billion dollars near Biala Podlaska with Sabri Bekdas) casts a sinister shadow over the sources of finance, suggesting it is a cover for money laundering. The report also examined ways that the Left Wing Alliance (SLD) has helped Turkish investors. One link was traced to the Prolim company which belongs to Jerzy Jedykiewicz a regional SLD leader, and which recently bought the Warsaw Reform Plaza office center from the indebted owner of the Reform Company. The building was designed by Toy's Epit company. "Reform Company sold us one third of the building two years ago and in May we bought the remaining part. Now we lease back the whole center to the Reform Company," said Prolim president Marek Nowotny. The General Inspectorate of Financial Information (GIIF), which investigates money laundering, recently started to examine operations connected with the Reform Plaza. (Rzeczpospolita, p. 10) M.M.