The investigation into this matter is pending since July 2008. Concerns acceptance of bribes by public officials in connection with the tender and supply of rolling stock for the Warsaw Metro by Alstom. In October 2009. Established close cooperation with Swiss law enforcement authorities. The result was the signing of an agreement to create a joint Polish-Swiss investigation team, whose main task is to explain all the topics related to the tender for the supply wagons.
spokeswoman said Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Wrocław Anna Zimoląg, the investigation was extended by the end of February 2015., but – as noted – it does not mean that the ends. “This process is multithreaded. For four years the material is collected under the legal assistance from several European countries “- said the prosecutor.
The accumulated so far the evidence includes thousands of pages of documentation banking, financial and trade in foreign languages. “It requires many months of translation and visual inspection using specialized software in the analysis of crime” – added the prosecutor.
Zimoląg said that the main threads of the investigation relate to bribes in 1998-2002 Warsaw city officials in connection with the three orders for urban transport companies. Terms of the order of 1998. For delivery by Alstom Konstal SA Chorzow 108 cars underground line for the company Warsaw Metro; order of 2000. Warsaw Tramways for the company for 62 trams and an order to supply 60 trams for the same company in 2001.
So far in this case, including allegations heard five people.
In January 2010. plea accepting the bribe in connection with the tender for the supply of wagons heard Bogdan Z., b. director of the Warsaw Metro. He worked in the company since the beginning of the construction of the first subway line. Director of the company has been since 1991. Was released in 2003., When he was mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczynski.
At the end of March 2010. Arrested in this case b. Official capital Tadeusz N., who had mediate transfer of bribes b. subway Director. The man was arrested by Spanish police in Barcelona under the European Arrest Warrant, and then transferred to Polish. He heard the plea mediate in handing bribes.
In turn, in April 2011. Plea accepting the bribe of 400 thousand. British pounds from the representative of Alstom heard b. Vice President of Warsaw, Jacek Z.
The suspects in the investigation are also Teresa K., Darius D., at that time working in Alstom Konstal SA. “They have heard the charges associated with the breach of its obligations due care for the economic interests managed by the company, which caused damage to property that undertaking in large sizes” – said the prosecutor.
Recently chief British prosecutor for. Fraud reported that the British subsidiary company of the French manufacturer Alstom trains and turbines had to pay over six years approx. 8.5 million bribes to win contracts in India, Poland and Tunisia.
According to the British Attorney company Alstom Network UK which in July was charged with six cases of corruption and conspiracy, had to pay bribes to get a contract for the infrastructure of delhijskim metro and trams, and contracts with Warsaw and Tunis in 2000-2006.
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