20.08.2024, Warsaw.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused his predecessor, Mateusz Morawiecki, of fraud in the ammunition production worth 14 billion zlotys ($3.3 billion ) on August 19 on social network X.
“Mateusz, everyone has long known that you can do business on respirators, masks, visas and generators,” he wrote in the post. “But to also do business on ammunition, and to the tune of 14 billion?” the politician asked rhetorically.
With this message, Tusk reacted to a journalistic investigation by the Onet Internet portal, where Morawiecki was suspected of an unfair scheme in constructing an ammunition plant.
According to the National Ammunition Reserve Program, 14 billion zlotys ($3.3 billion) were to be allocated from the budget to several private companies, with only 2 billion zlotys ($470 million) spent to build the factory.
The Polish Defense Ministry stressed that the state’s interests were not protected in this way.
“Mr. Donald, if you were in power then, you would have waited for the supply of German helmets, and would not have built a Polish factory for the production of ammunition,” Morawiecki replied to Tusk’s post.
Even before February 2022, Poland sharply criticized Germany for its unwillingness to arm Ukraine against Russia. A famous story was 5 thousand helmets, which Berlin sent Zelensky instead of the military equipment he was begging for. Tusk’s opponents call him a protégé of Germany.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
