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Extraordinary Rendition
"The film 'Extraordinary Rendition' explores the truth about CIA rendition and secret detention and sets out to explain not only the extent of US involvement in torture, but also why this program was carried out. It also reveals how rendition continues."
Tags: Egypt; India; CIA; torture; black sites; rendition; Poland; Bisher al Rawi; interrogation
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The PZU Game
The multi-billion dollar privatization of Poland insurance company PZU has raised questions. "Polish postcommunists and Dutch businessmen of unclear past" took over the company. The story focuses on the situation of Grzegorz Wieczerak, a PZU president who was accused of embezzlement. The evidence against him had been gathered by a company hired by people attempting to control PZU. The charges were eventually dropped, prompting Wieczerzak and his attorney to launch an investigation of their own.
Tags: PZU; insurance company; privatization; Grzegorz Wieczerak
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A Heartless Doctor
"A young cardiac surgeon from the Bialystok clinic wanted to take revenge on the head of the ward. He arranged a plot with two criminals and several policeman from the department against corruption, although the latter was an honest man."
Tags: Poland; Tomasz Hirnle
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Starachowice Leak: SLD Deputy Gave Warning of Police Raid
"Sejm Deputy Andrzej Jagiello (SLD) warned his colleagues in Starachowice local government who had affiliations with a local criminal gang that the police were planning to detain them and the gang members. Jagiello was referring to information obtained from another SLD member, Deputy Zbigniew Sobotka who is a vice minister of internal affairs and administration overseeing the police.
Tags: government; law; gang; Poland
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Medicines for Millions of Dollars
"In the first text 'Medicines for Million Dollars' we exposed a corruption proposal made to an American pharmaceutical concern. Then we followed with texts bringing to light suspicious developments involving closest associates of former Minister of Health Mariusz Lapinski -- notably Lapinski's political office chief Waldemar Deszczynski and Vice - minister of Health Aleksander Nauman who was responsible for medicines supply policy, including the registration and placing of medicines on refundable medicines lists. (Several weeks before our first release the prime minister appointed Nauman the chairman of the National Health Fund, an institution which is the sole administrator of the health insurance system's money.)"
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Secret bank accounts of former PZU bosses
From the questionnaire, "Three people were behind massive financial in the largest Polish insurance group: Grzegorz Wieczerzak, (PZU Zycie) and Wladyslaw Jamrozy (PZU), and Andrzej Perczynski aka Andrew Northen. Before Rzeczpospolita's publications involvement in this affair was unknown. He helped two chairmen transfer millions of dollars to secret bank accounts, some of which are maintained in Jersey. Rzeczpospolita succeeded in finding out what trust funds had been set up for purposes of this coup, what money rerouting mechanism had been employed, and how much money had been siphoned off."
Tags: Poland; government; questionnaire
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Allegations of Corruption Dog Polish Energy Company PKN Orlean
The Dow Jones Newsire in Warsaw, Poland uncovers misbehavior and alleged corruption in Poland's major oil company, PKN Orlean. Leading a series of following reports, the story reveals how a false news report that led to a fall in the company's share prices was deliberately planted by PKN's Cheif Executive himself. Further, the bureau unearthed company documents showing Orlen has a widespread problem with the quality of its fuels. And lastly, the Dow bureau expands on local media reports about dubious practics in handing out rebranding contracts at the company's service stations.
Tags: Zbiginew Wrobel; Orlen; Krzysztof Rogala; Ernst & Young; Anderson Consulting
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One Horrific Day
CBS News 60 Minutes investigates the destruction and massacre of a Jewish community in Poland during WWII. More than one thousand Jews in the small town of Jedwabne died at the hands of their Polish neighbors.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Jan Gross; Jewabne; Poland; Jews; anti-Semitism; World War II; Holocaust; President Krasniewski
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Drama in three acts
A Polish Public Television investigative report exposes the scams of corrupt Polish politicians in the beginning of the 90s. The series reveals that most of the key players are "still active and herald the idea of "clean hands in politics." The major finding is that -- with the support of those in power -- huge amount of public money has been illegally transferred to private pockets and enterprises. The investigation focuses specifically on the embezzlement of money from the Foreign Debt Fund, an institution created to manage the debt of the country to foreign creditors. The reporting took place both in Poland and Venezuela, as one of the main players lives in Latin America.
Tags: intelligence; money and politics; fraud; money laundering; counter espionage; international reporting; business
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Of Human Bondage
NBC News Dateline investigates a "startling and disturbing new criminal trend: the buying and selling of women for sexual slavery in developed countries like the United States." The story "follows the trail of women from rural Ukraine to the Czech Republic and finally to brothels in the United States," and identifies "entire communities and villages where brothels were stocked with enslaved girls as young as 14 years old." The story "profiles a handful of the estimated 2 million women who are illegally trafficked out of their home countries ..." "The report visits bogus employment offices and documents exactly how recruiters entice young, educated women with false promises of lucrative jobs abroad."
Tags: TAPE; NO TRANSCRIPT; California Public Records Act; prostitution; women; slavery rings; Eastern Europe: Ukraine; Czech Republic; Poland; Bulgaria; Bosnia; INS; FBI; INTERPOL