Detained director of promotion and former spokesperson of the town hall in Żyrardów. Siphoned 350 thousand zł for local government television
The Regional Office of the CBA in Warsaw is investigating irregularities in the operation of the Żyrardów town hall.
The CBA agents detained the Director of the Promotion Department of the City of Żyrardów and the former spokesperson of the office in Warsaw.
The findings of the CBA show, that public money was siphoned from the Center of Culture and the Promotion Department of the City of Żyrardów - about 350,000 zł for the benefit of an external company belonging to the former press spokesperson of the president, which was to produce local-government Żyrardow TV (TVŻ). Her company, chosen bypassing the public procurement law, in addition to a monthly salary of more than several thousand zł also obtained free of charge a renovated premises for redaction from the city, an employee paid off by the Center for Culture - IT equipment, software, camera was bought especially for her.
The two persons detained by the CBA were charged in the District Prosecutor's Office in Ostrów Wielkopolski.
Temporarily arrested president of Żyrardów also got new charges.
Earlier in July this year, in this investigation, agents from the CBA Regional Office in Warsaw detained the President of Żyrardów and two entrepreneurs from the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, from Rewal and Gryfice. This thread concerned the President's abuse of powers, bid rigging for over 1.5 million zł for the sale of municipal real estate in Rewal. On those lands, close to the beach, there was earlier a holiday resort. The District Court in Kalisz then applied temporary detention to the President of Żyrardów.
The investigation is multithreaded. Activities are ongoing, further detentions and extension of the list of charges are possible.
