"I will not accept any waste of resources." Tusk made a strong comment on the KPO scandal

On Friday, there was an issue concerning grants from the KPO for the alleged HoReCa sector. The funds were to be utilized for innovation, while the map on the KPO website shows that entrepreneurs utilized them for yachts, cottages on water or coffee machines. Prime Minister Donald Tusk referred to the case. The words were strong.


Prime Minister Donald Tusk addressed a storm around KPO on Friday morning during a press conference in Łeba. “I will not accept any waste of funds from the National Recovery Plan,” he said.

The head of government reported that he spoke on the telephone about the case with the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz. I found out about possible irregularities, sloppyness, or stupidly distributed drugs. The Ministry has known about this for any time, the audit is carried out in the Polish Agency for Enterprise improvement – he said.

I'm not certain that explanation's adequate for now. I'm going to want this check as shortly as possible to make a sound evaluation of all gold spent. Where this expenditure was not justified, I will anticipate a fast decision, including the withdrawal of funds. Zero tolerance for this practice," said Donald Tusk.

And he added: "If he shows that experts have decided to allocate funds and that the conclusions were not justified, he will be verified. I'll take care of it myself.

Storm around KPO

As we wrote on Temat.pl, after the publication of the map on the KPO website a storm broke out. According to the data, any entrepreneurs have spent subsidies on yachts, saunas, virtual shooting ranges, mobile coffee machines, ice cream machines and even cabins on water. An example is the co-financing of yacht charters as "diversification for future crisis catering activities".

Meanwhile, the National Reconstruction Plan website has ceased to operate, and the networks are not lacking critical entries. Politicians and journalists, among others, spoke. In particular, citizens express outrage.

"My squad didn't get money from KPO for chemo chairs, drug pumps, and ultrasound. And we truly request them (and the infirmary has over 200 million debts) erstwhile I read that it was 500k for ice cream, or a yacht as part of diversification, I apologize, but SZLAG ME STRAIN TRAPHIL" – wrote Jakub Kosikowski, a resident of clinical oncology.