Wroclaw company officials arrested on charges of flood repair corruption

The president of Awbud, one of the largest building companies in Wroclaw, and the company's chief accountant have been arrested on suspicion of corruption. The charges relate to false invoices for construction work carried out in the wake of the 1997 flooding that devastated the city. Tenders were chosen under a simplified bidding process, but some people abused the system by submitting invoices up to 20% or 30% higher than the true value of the work, costing the authorities as much as zl.40 million. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) P.W.