Austrian businessman who taped Polish ruling party chief linked to Putin ally: report
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
19.02.2019 11:41
A Cyprus firm owned by an Austrian businessman who is in dispute with Poland’s ruling party chief is run by a company with links to an oligarch who is a trusted ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a Polish daily.
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Gazeta Polska Codziennie reported on Tuesday that businessman Gerald Birgfellner’s Cyprus firm is run by a company that provides services for the main shareholder in Russia’s largest copper concern, controlled by the oligarch.
Gazeta Polska Codziennie also claimed the company which runs Birgfellner’s firm is mixed up in the Panama Papers affair.
Details were expected to be published by Poland’s conservative Gazeta Polska weekly on Wednesday.
A lawyer for Birgfellner has accused Jarosław Kaczyński, head of Poland’s governing Law and Justice party, of failing to pay him for services related to plans to build twin skyscrapers in Warsaw, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported last month.
Recordings of an apparent conversation between Kaczyński and Birgfellner recently hit the headlines in Poland.
The recordings were obtained by Gazeta Wyborcza, which is highly critical of Poland’s conservative government.
In an interview for state news agency PAP, Kaczyński has said that Birgfellner had "demanded money for work that was not documented in any way."
Conservative critics have attacked the Gazeta Wyborcza revelations as a groundless attempt to depict Kaczyński as being involved in questionable business dealings.
(pk)
Source: gpcodziennie.pl/PAP