The decisive role in determining the winner of the competition for the privatization of the Huta Czestochowa metallurgical plant (Poland) was played by the opinion of the Polish security service (ABW, Agencja Bezpieczenstwa Wewnetrznego).
This is reported by the Polish newspaper "Rzeczpospolita" with reference to a source who wished to remain unnamed, reports UNIAN.
According to the newspaper, the ABW informed the office of the Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and the ministries of economy and state property of Poland that the Ukrainian corporation is suspected of "unclear origin of capital, unclear holding structure, and money laundering." The ABW also suspects ISD of connections with Russians.
At the same time, the newspaper reports that the ABW itself neither confirmed nor wished to comment in any way on this information.
Moreover, according to "Rzeczpospolita", ISD's representative in Poland, Kostiantyn Lytvynov, refuted the ABW's report. According to him, "ISD is a solid firm that conceals neither its structure nor the sources of origin of its capital."
As already reported, a scandal has been ongoing for more than a week around the tender to determine the investor for the Polish metallurgical plant Huta Czestochowa, the main participants of which were the Ukrainian corporation "Industrial Union of Donbas" and the international concern LNM.
On February 20, 2004, the Polish media reported, with reference to the head of the Ministry of State Property of Poland, Kaniewski, that LNM had been chosen as the strategic investor of the Polish metallurgical plant Huta Czestochowa.
After this information was made public in the Ukrainian media, the press service of the ISD corporation circulated a statement in which it cast doubt on the objectivity of the tender results and demanded official information. ISD insists that the victory was initially awarded to the Ukrainian corporation, but subsequently, for unclear reasons, the decision was changed.