Entrepreneurs caught by the CBA. Over PLN 29 million zlotys extorted
The CBA has detained three more persons in a case regarding extortion of over PLN 29 million zlotys from the insolvency assets of a company dealing with railway lines repairs
The Regional Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau in Warsaw conducts under the supervision of the National Prosecutor’s Office in Wrocław activities in the investigation regarding abuse of powers by removing funds from the insolvency assets and then money laundering using a number of fictitious economic entities. The scope of the investigation covers eight Warsaw companies, including enterprises from the railway industry, housing cooperative, construction company modernizing public hospitals.
This time, as part of ongoing activities, the officers of the CBA have detained three entrepreneurs from Warsaw, Lublin and Chotomów. Everything seems to indicate that they acted to the detriment of the bankrupt enterprise from the railway industry. As it has been determined by the investigators on the basis of number of apparent contracts and oral agreements concluded with the receiver issued fictitious invoices on the basis of which they removed funds from the insolvency assets.
The total amount of damage determined so far in the enterprise's property amounts to nearly PLN 29 million.
The detainees will be transferred to the National Prosecutor’s Office in Wrocław, where they will be charged.
First detentions in this developmental case took place in 2017. In the threads examined by investigators appeared, among others, sale of a hotel and conference center in Warsaw worth at least PLN 31 million, but sold for just over PLN 9 million.
So far, 27 persons in the investigation have the status of suspects, including a receiver acting to the detriment of bankrupt companies. The investigators do not rule out further detentions and charges.