'Cement Roadstone Holdings' and an Alledged $1m Bribe to the Polish Gov't

international | crime and justice | other press Monday June 27, 2005 11:07 by redjade

follow the money (from Ireland)...

Irish Times - June 27th, 2005:
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.”

Gavin at IrishCorruption.com is on top of the story...
http://www.irishcorruption.com/?p=40

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Remember....

Irish Activist Begins 14-Day Hunger Strike
In Appeal To 'Cement Roadstone Holdings'
Jun 10 2004
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65455