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Polish prosecutors probing would-be chopper deal with France: report
Polish prosecutors probing would-be chopper deal with France: report
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They are probing claims that the tender may have been designed by officials in Polands former government, including former Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, to favour France’s Airbus company, Poland’s public broadcaster TVP Info reported on its website. It cited a spokesman for the Warsaw Prosecutors Office, Michał Dziekański, as saying that prosecutors were investigating whether the officials neglected their duties or overstepped their authority. Such offences carry a penalty of up to three years in prison, the broadcaster said. The District Prosecutors Office in Warsaw recently overturned a decision by prosecutors last year to refuse to open an inquiry in response to a notification filed by deputies from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, TVP Info said. The probe is now being conducted by prosecutors in the northwestern city of Szczecin. PiS deputies notified prosecutors in May last year, alleging that the tender could have been designed to be won by one specific bidder: France’s Airbus. According to PiS, former Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, his deputy Czesław Mroczek and other officials the two supervised may have committed a crime, TVP Info said. In October last year, the Polish PiS-led government, which swept into power after parliamentary elections in October 2015, announced it was not going ahead with the purchase of 50 H225M Caracal helicopters from Frances Airbus for PLN 13.5 billion (EUR 3.2 billion), citing unsuccessful negotiations over an offset deal. Poland’s former Civic Platform-led government in April 2015 chose to purchase helicopters from Airbus, rejecting rival offers from the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporations PZL Mielec and AgustaWestland PZL Świdnik. The decision to purchase from a French firm rather than a Polish one was met with domestic criticism at the time. The Law and Justice government indicated that it might cancel the deal after winning parliamentary elections. The negotiations were called off a year later. According to government officials, negotiations failed as an agreement could not be reached on offset requirements. A few days ago, National Public Prosecutor Bogdan Święczkowski said that prosecutors would investigate “the whole process of buying the Caracal helicopters, which means the entire process of negotiating the purchase of the helicopters, including the signing of the contract, and how the French party subsequently withdrew from the offset obligations.” Meanwhile, Deputy Defence Minister Michał Dworczyk, a PiS MP, recently notified Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) about possible irregularities related to the tender, TVP Info reported. In a separate motion, deputies from the opposition Civic Platform party have notified prosecutors that current government officials may have neglected their responsibilities and acted to the detriment of the State Treasury by halting the Caracal order. (gs/pk) Source: TVP Info
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