More detentions in the GetBack case
Joint activities of the Warsaw Regional Office of the Central Anticorruption Bureau and the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw. The CBA detained two more people in the investigation related to the GetBack. The company bought for over 207 million zł shares of another listed company, the value of which was many times overstated. The appraisal report showed that they were worth only 28 million zł.
The agents from the Warsaw CBA Regional Office detained two persons who sold shares of one of the listed companies to the GetBack company. The transaction amounted to over 207 million PLN. After the sale, an appraisal report was prepared. Its result determined the value of securities bought by rhe GetBack for just under 28 million zł.
The CBA officers conducting the investigation also determined that the company acquired by the GetBack was charged with liabilities worth approximately 80 million PLN, which had to be repaid to creditors by the end of 2017. Thus, GetBack's losses only on this transaction could amount to 260 million PLN.
The investigators from the CBA had already worked intensely in this investigation - they interviewed a total of over 70 people - including officials from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority and the GetBack SA, they secured volumes of documentation and electronic data. On 16th June this year were detained - by agents from the Warsaw CBA Regional Office - at Chopin Airport, Konrad K. - former President of the Board of GetBack SA, and in his home in Warsaw Ursynów Piotr B. - a representative of an economic entity that cooperated with the former President of the Board of GetBack SA.
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.
The CBA officers also detained 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 for over 4 mln zł. The charges against the five persons detained by the CBA concern, inter alia, causing the Getback SA damage to property in large sizes, misappropriation of more than 2 million zł from the Getback by transfer without legal title, use of previously falsified demand documents for early redemption of Getback SA bonds and an apparent contract for more than 4 million zł. Investigators determined that the detainees acted in order to gain financial benefit - jointly and in agreement, inter alia, with the former President of the Board of the Getback SA.