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Ex-minister’s former company in corruption probe: report

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Roberto Galea 24.04.2017 15:24
A firm that was co-owned by former treasury minister Aleksander Grad is under investigation in relation to a lucrative contract signed with a state-owned company, the Fakt daily has reported.
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Fakt says that for many years, the MGGP company was partly owned by Aleksander Grad.

When he became treasury minister in 2007, in the Civic Platform (PO) government led by then-PM Donald Tusk, Grad gave his 25-percent stake in the company to his wife Małgorzata, Fakt said.

Under PO, the MGGP company – which according to its website deals in engineering and geoinformation services – won several lucrative contracts. One deal, which Fakt reported about a few months ago, was signed for some PLN 24.8 million, the paper said.

It added that it had seen new documents indicating that MGGP would earn significantly more.

The contract with a subsidiary of gas monopoly PGNiG included the maintenance of IT systems for 30 years, Fakt said. The service costs PLN 180,000 a month, the daily said. Over three decades, the bill could run up to PLN 64 million, according to Fakt.

MGGP can be considered a family business, Fakt said, adding that Paweł Grad’s wife Małgorzata is on the company’s board. The couple’s son Paweł is the deputy chairman of the company, it added.

Fakt reported that Poland's Central Anticorruption Bureau is investigating the matter.

(rg/pk)

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