Nowak, who served as transport minister from 2011 to 2013 in Poland’s former coalition government led by the Civic Platform (PO) party, has been charged with accepting and soliciting PLN 6.1 million (USD 1.5m, EUR 1.3m) in bribes, a spokeswoman for Warsaw prosecutors was quoted as saying.
Nowak has been charged on 17 counts, including money laundering to the tune of PLN 8 million and heading "an organized criminal group," Aleksandra Skrzyniarz was cited as saying by the state-run news agency PAP.
Fourteen other suspects, including three Ukrainian nationals and a Turk, have also been charged along with Nowak, the PAP news agency reported.
Nowak was detained in July last year by Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) in a joint probe with Ukrainian investigators on suspicion of multiple white-collar crimes while he worked in Ukraine.
After he stopped being a Polish government minister, Nowak headed Ukraine’s State Road Agency (Ukravtodor).
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Source: PAP, TVP Info