As the editorial team managed to determine, the foundation run by Magdalena Ogórek – Polish Lost Art Foundation (PLAF) received large donations from Orlen in the years 2021-2024. The fuel company’s press office confirmed this information in an interview with the portal.
Orlen confirms that the Ogórek foundation received money, but does not reveal the details. Inspection in progress
Moreover, the last transfers were to be sent to Ogórek after the parliamentary elections in 2023, but this was most likely to be before the change of management at Orlen. Let us recall that Daniel Obajtek was dismissed from the position of president of the concern at the beginning of February 2024.
However, the new authorities do not want to reveal the amount transferred to the account of the Ogórek foundation. At the same time, it was informed that an investigation into this matter was being carried out. However, PLAF does not disclose the latest financial statements, which also makes verification difficult.
The Polish Lost Art Foundation (PLAF) was founded by Magdalena Ogórek in 2017. In the first years of operation, little was heard about the foundation’s activities. It was only at the end of 2022 that it came to light that PLAF was building a museum dedicated to the plundering of cultural property by the Germans during World War II. The facility is being built in Sulisławice in Lower Silesia and was to be put into operation in 2023.
There was plenty of it on TVP Info and various Polish Radio stations. Before the elections, she also “cooperated” with Orlen
Magdalena Ogórek, as one of the chief propagandists of the then “national media”, also got the opportunity to interview PiS politicians in the free Orlen newspaper, which took place before last year’s parliamentary elections.
Her foundation also received financial support in 2021 from the Lotos Foundation for an unspecified amount, before this part of the fuel company was incorporated into Orlen. This money was to be used to build a museum. The donation from the KGHM Foundation, which PLAF received in 2023, was to be used to prepare an exhibition in the museum. It was 445 thousand. zlotys.
At the end of last year, the former candidate for president of Poland parted ways with Telewizja Polska and Polish Radio. After the Sejm adopted a resolution on the restoration of legal order and the impartiality and reliability of the public media and PAP, Magdalena Ogórek lost all her jobs and stopped appearing on television. At the moment, he has no plans to return to the media. I want to focus on writing another history book.
Source: Gazeta
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