The CBA detained the representatives of the Management Board of the Koło housing cooperative in Warsaw.
The officers of the Regional Office of the CBA in Katowice have detained the President Janusz Sz. and the Vice President Maria Ch. of the Koło housing cooperative in Warsaw. The investigation pertains to the activity of the SK Bank Wołomin.
The CBA officers secured the documents in the offices of the presidents. The detainees were taken to the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw where they faced charges. Non-custodial supervision measures were applied against them.
The officers of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau had previously detained 13 persons connected with fraud and extortion of PLN 100 million from the SK Bank in Wołomin and Bank Spółdzielczy (BS - Cooperative Bank) in Nadarzyn. Among the detainees are former president and former vice-president of the Bank Spółdzielczy in Nadarzyn. More than 100 charges were brought against the detained persons. 6 persons were remanded in custody. In May this year, in the course of the investigation, the CBA officers entered the premises of the SK Bank in Wołomin (Cooperative Bank of Crafts and Agriculture in Wołomin), the apartments belonging to 7 persons holding managerial positions in the bank at the time covered by the investigation, including the president and the board members, as well as to several dozen of business entities belonging to the capital group operating in the real property sector.
The investigation is carried out into gross mismanagement by the Management Board of the Cooperative Bank of Crafts and Agriculture in Wołomin (commercial name of the SK Bank), criminal offences related to accounts keeping with the infringement of the law, entering inaccurate data into the accounts, concealing true information and providing the National Bank of Poland with untrue information.
The activities undertaken by the CBA and the Prosecutor's Office are connected with the notification submitted to the presiding chairperson of the Financial Supervision Authority following the control pertaining to the SK Bank in Wołomin. The estimated value of the loss amounts to about PLN 2.6 billion.
The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw mandated the Regional Office of the CBA in Katowice to carry out the investigation in its entirety.
The investigation is in progress.
Piotr Kaczorek, CBA
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The CBA detained the representatives of the Management Board of the Koło housing cooperative in Warsaw.
