Interesting stuff coming out of Poland, and a denial from CRH:
A Polish businessman has told a parliamentary inquiry that he paid a bribe of almost $1 million (€827,000) on behalf of CRH, Ireland’s biggest company, to a Polish government minister.
Marek Dochnal, who is in prison awaiting trial on a separate bribery charge, told the inquiry he paid most of the sum to a former minister for privatisation, Wieslaw Kaczmarek, in connection with the privatisation of a cement plant at Ozarow, in central Poland, in 1995.
Mr Dochnal said he paid Mr Kaczmarek between $600,000 and $700,000 in cash through an intermediary and transferred a further $250,000 to a Swiss bank account.
A spokesman for CRH, a building materials firm, said the company was unaware of the allegations. “If the allegations were made, they are absolutely without foundation.”
And of course, mention of CRH gets into the nexus of Irish corruption, the Fianna Fail-CRH connection, going all the way back to Sean Lemass, and the means by which the Ansbacher shenanigans were conducted.
Isn’t funny how the most corruption scandels come from mainly catolic countries italy poland ireland. is there something in that or mearly co-incidence.