PM’s office sued over plane bill

20th March 2009

"he caused unnecessary cost to the State Treasury"

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The head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Tomasz Arabski, is being sued by President Kaczynski’s office for the cost of a plane used by the President to take him to Brussels.

The Boeing 737, costing PLN 140,000 of tax-payers money, was chartered by the president to take him to an EU Summit last October after he fell out with PM Tusk over who should represent Poland at the meeting.

Eventually both went in different planes, with the PM’s office saying the President’s office should foot the bill.

But now Kaczynski’s Chancellery is holding Arabski responsible, saying that he caused unnecessary cost to the State Treasury since, at the time, he refused to send the official aircr ...

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