Poland: Audit at Oil and Gas Company PGNiG

People ♦ Published: April 25, 2013; 16:55 ♦ (Vindobona)

Poland’s new Treasury Minister Wlodzimierz Karpinski announced on Wednesday to carry out an urgent audit at Polish state-controlled oil and natural gas company PGNiG.

Poland: Audit at Oil and Gas Company PGNiG / Picture: © PGNiG

The step could involve the firing of personnel at the company after an unpleasant incident had occurred which embarrassed the government. "Every responsible (official) has to carry out a review, an audit, first and then make decisions," Karpinski said. "I will carry out such an audit in the way needed, in other words urgently."

After Prime Minister Donald Tusk Karpinski had fired…