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Article: Another week, another scandal; Polish politics.(A fresh scandal breaks in Poland)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2004
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A new and murky tale of intrigue in Poland
POLAND has only just got over one big political scandal, triggered when a well-known film producer called Lew Rywin allegedly offered to get a media-ownership law amended in exchange for a large payment to his friends in power. A parliamentary inquiry helped to bring down the government of the day, led by Leszek Miller, who resigned as prime minister in May.
Now another parliamentary commission is digging into an even juicier-sounding tale. This one mixes oil, a Russian spy and another multi-million dollar bribe. Much is still hearsay, but the story goes that Poland's richest businessman, Jan Kulczyk, a private ...