Businessman who was engaged in amber mining in Ukraine with Balchun detained in Poland
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Poland's Central Anti-Corruption Bureau has detained businessman Jerzy Dominik Krzystynyak, co-owner of Aurum Polonez, an amber mining and jewelry company registered in Rivne. He is suspected of participating in an organized criminal group that, according to investigators, was involved in VAT fraud and money laundering, the TV channel TVN24 .

reported on Monday

For some time, Krzysztyniak's business partner in this company was Wojciech Balczun, former chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia and current Minister of State Assets of Poland.

Business Insider writes that the case against the businessman began in 2019, even before Balchun invested in Aurum Polonez.

According to TVN24, Balczun claims that he did not know Krzysztyniak before joining the company and knew nothing about his past. He notes that as a private investor, he did not have the opportunity to thoroughly check the history of his future partner.

At the end of 2023, Balchun left the amber mining in Ukraine.

According to unofficial information, law enforcement agencies did not check Balchun's activities.

  • Aurum Polonez was a subcontractor of the state enterprise Burshtyn Ukrainy and worked at the Pugach site of the Klesiv amber deposit in 2020-2022, according to the industry publication Nadra.info. Balchun and Krzysztyniak's company was not the only private partner of the SOE.
  • The third participant in Aurum Polonez was Mykola Nemtsov from Chernivtsi, whom TVN24 calls a former police officer.