The GetBack case - members of the former management board of a debt collection company detained
Already 9 persons detained during an intense investigation concerning irregularities in the operations of the GetBack SA capital group. The agents of the CBA Regional Office in Warsaw detained today three former members of the board of the GetBack SA and two persons cooperating with them in committing crimes.
The investigation conducted by the CBA Regional Office in Warsaw under the supervision of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw concerns causing damage to property of large size in the course of trade to the detriment of the GetBack SA, systematic siphoning of millions of zlotys from the company based on sham contracts to achieve personal gain, to hide evidence and to use counterfeit documents. The case also includes crimes of manipulation of financial instruments and public disclosure of untruths about the company's activities.
The CBA officers detained today in Warsaw and the Mazowieckie Province former members of the GetBack SA management board: vice-president Anna P., Marek P. and Bożena S., brother of the suspect S. Dariusz S. and Kinga M., who signed an apparent contract to the detriment of the company.
The CBA agents are searching the detainees' apartments, and they are securing evidence.
The investigators from the CBA had already worked hard on this investigation - they interviewed a total of over 60 people - including officials from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and the GetBack SA, they secured volumes of documentation and electronic data.
On June 16, agents from the Warsaw Regional Office of the CBA detained at Chopin Airport, Konrad K. - former President of the Board of GetBack S.A. and at home in Warsaw Ursynów Piotr B. - representative of an economic entity who cooperated with the former President of the Board of the GetBack S.A.
Former president of the GetBack SA. Konrad K. was charged with, among other things: attempting to bring the Polish Development Fund to S.A. to an unfavorable regulation of its property, by misleading about the actual financial condition of the GetBack SA and submitting unreliable documents for the GetBack S.A. loans in the amount of 250 million zł and causing the GetBack S.A. property damage of over 15 million zł on the basis of not implemented but paid off, apparent contracts for the provision of consulting and marketing services concerning the issuance of bonds and cooperation. Another allegation concerns a similar nature, an amount of at least 7 million zł and a contract "for the provision of services in the field of security in business". Detained by the CBA - Piotr B. heard accusations regarding this agreement and acting in order to obtain financial benefits. The former president of the GetBack SA also heard the allegations of crimes concerning the public dissemination of false data in the current report of the company that could be misleading as to the value of financial instruments issued by the GetBack S.A. company, against the prohibition of such manipulations on the market. Details about the charges in its news were published by the prosecutor's office.
On June 26, the CBA agents from Warsaw detained two more suspects: Katarzyna M. - former Director of the Office of the Board of the GetBack SA and Szczepan D.-M. president of the Polish Brokerage House. Former Director of the Board Office of the GetBack SA is suspected of destroying company's documents, covering up traces of committed crimes and helping their perpetrators to avoid criminal responsibility. She was also supposed to instruct persons associated with the GetBack SA, what to do to effectively destroy evidence owned by them.
President of the Polish Brokerage House - Szczepan D.-M. was charged by the prosecutor with acting jointly and in consultation with the former president of the board of the GetBack SA, suspected Konrad K., to the detriment of this company. According to investigative findings, he was the co-founder of a network of companies which, based on sham contracts, served to siphon from the GetBack SA amounts constituting property of great value.
Four of those detained earlier by the CBA by a court decision were temporarily arrested.
Activities in this multithreaded investigation are ongoing. The evidence is analyzed, new circumstances of the case are disclosed. Further detentions and charges can not be ruled out.