8.11.04

Yesterday tanks, today oil:

The most shocking revelation the inquiry has produced so far was that Poland's richest man, industrialist Jan Kulczyk, held secret talks in Vienna about the future of the Polish energy sector with a former KGB resident in Poland.

According to declassified intelligence reports, made public by a special parliamentary committee leading the inquiry, Kulczyk had offered to use his political influence to help Russian firms make another try for the Gdanska refinery.