Boris Berezovsky, a Russian billionaire living in exile in the UK, lost a legal dispute held in front of a British court, in which he had demanded USD 5.5 bln compensation from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. ...

The Amber Gold affair, epitomizing a Polish 'parabank' scam in which Amber Gold has been accused of embezzling at least PLN 53 mln from its clients, has brought to light negligence in controlling the banking system and lending companies in Poland. The Prosecutor's Office, the Polish Corporate Registry, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), the National Bank of Poland (NBP) have all been accused ...

The global slowdown and euro crisis notwithstanding, retail properties are bucking the trend, according to a new report by international real estate agency Colliers International. ...

Consulting firm PwC, in conjunction with law firm Baker & McKenzie, has prepared a report in which the authors analyzed how the new pharma law in Poland has negatively affected the market.             ...

Following 14 years of investigation. Polish prosecutors have charged two individuals with the killing of Gen. Marek Papała, the former commanding officer of the Polish Police. ...

A ten-year process of IT solutions implementation with the support of financing from the European Union has ended in a corruption scandal and cease of the financing, Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported May 4. ...

Last week saw the first charges in an investigation into the financial irregularities of Poland's most sacred military special forces group GROM, with some of the upper echelons in the unit accused of embezzling some PLN 400,000., the local media reported. ...

Polish construction and coal companies came back from fair trade organized in Mongolia with new contracts, the Polish economic daily Parkiet wrote Wednesday, but some skeptics exist based on what have been troubled business dealings with neighboring China.  ...