Poland Charges 62 Former Government Officials With Misuse of Funds

Poland has charged 62 officials from the former government with offenses relating to misuse of funds, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Friday. “After six months, we have 62 people from the previous ruling elite who have been charged. This has never happened in history before our predecessors,” Tusk said on Friday. “Notifications were submitted to the prosecutor’s office about the possibility of crimes having been committed involving more than 3.2 billion zlotys ($810 million).” Tusk said 200 tax inspectors were investigating 90 different units in 17 ministries and he claimed the scale of potential irregularities had been estimated by the tax office at up to 100 billion zlotys ($25.23 billion)....