Almost every day, the alarm was raised by the retail director at gas stations about economically unjustified and harmful activities for the company, resulting in millions of losses, and the absence of any sensible procedures regulating the process of setting fuel prices – these were the activities of ORLEN during the presidency of Jacek Krawiec during the 2011 parliamentary election campaign
In 2011, Donald Tusk, under the slogan: “Let’s not do politics, let’s build…”, led PO to a second term at the helm of Poland. The elections organized on October 9 were preceded by a long period of exceptional price promotions at the ORLEN stations.
Today it is already known that artificially maintaining fuel prices cost the company several hundred million PLN, and this policy was implemented on the orders of ORLEN CEO Jacek Krawiec.
The then retail executive director, Marek Podstawa, repeatedly asked for permission to increase fuel prices in his emails, but to no avail. He addressed his requests directly to Grażyna Piotrowska-Oliwa, who was responsible for sales on the board of directors of PKN ORLEN, including Jacek Krawiec himself in a copy of the message.
However, the answer before the elections was always the same: there is no permission for wage increases. As a result of this policy, ORLEN suffered its largest losses from September 6 to 28, 2011, losing the most on sales of E95 gasoline. For example, on September 12, every liter of this fuel sold at ORLEN stations resulted in a loss of PLN 8!
Emails revealed by the latest weekly magazine “Sieci”:
September 13, 2011 at 4:00 PM – Retail Executive Director Marek Podstawa asks to increase the price to at least PLN 5.19 per 1 liter for gasoline and diesel with an octane number of 95. September 13, 2011 at 4:53 PM – Grażyna Piotrowska Oliwa informs that there is no permission for the elevation of the tailor’s president.
This exchange is one of many similar correspondence available to our editorial staff, which shows that it was the tailor’s president who manually set prices at the stations before the 2011 elections, ignoring his employees’ alarms about negative margins.
Now it can go up to PLN 7
The case of manual price checking by Krawiec before the 2011 elections already received five minutes of media attention in 2014, when the weekly Wprost published reports of eavesdropping on waiters at the Sowa restaurant. & Friends.
During one of the recorded conversations, which took place between Donald Tusk’s confidante Paweł Graś and Jacek Krawiec, the then president of ORLEN confessed that Prime Minister Tusk told him just after the 2011 elections that “gasoline can now cost 7 PLN.” “.
This sentence clearly suggested that prices at gas stations were artificially lowered before the 2011 elections. Unofficially, it is known that this issue was the subject of an internal audit conducted at ORLEN in 2018. We have learned that it has been clearly demonstrated that before the 2011 elections, with the consent and knowledge of the company’s management at that time, and especially its President Jacek Krawiec, prices at gas stations fell to levels below profitability, causing the company to lose was exposed.
The audit also confirmed that people responsible for maintaining the profitability of fuel sales in the company informed the president of these results, but he did not agree to a price increase in the period leading up to the elections.
Twelve years after those events, the same man, Jacek Krawiec, says today without hesitation in press interviews:
“If we look historically, we can easily see that ORLEN has no pricing policy under Mr. Obajtek. It was replaced by what I call a call from a friend from Nowogrodzka Street or the politics of doing the right thing by PiS. […] Using a negative margin is mismanagement and is to the detriment of the company. These are crimes under the Criminal Code.”
This is an excerpt from an interview Krawiec recently gave to Forbes. Incredible insolence or amnesia? It’s hard to decide.
The numbers don’t lie
Meanwhile, it is Jacek Krawiec, whose achievements in increasing the company’s development potential not much can be said and who in the same position earned much more than President Obajtek, who without hesitation attacks the current management of ORLEN. This is surprising even to many Tusk voters, at least those whose gray matter recognizes anything more than just eight stars.
“ORLEN earned a total of about PLN 5 billion under the administration of PO and Mr. Krawiec (8 years). zloty. In 2018 alone, before the acquisitions, Obajtek’s management earned more than PLN 7 billion, and in 2022 it was PLN 42 billion. Does anyone else have any questions or comments?”
– this is one of many similar comments on websites that, to put it mildly, have never supported the United Right government, and the majority of Internet users commenting there openly declare their political ties to the KO camp.
Unfortunately, there is a high risk that Jacek Krawiec’s increased media activity in recent days is caused by his desire to return to the position of ORLEN’s president. Is it necessary to write what the return of the Tusk-Krawiec tandem at the helm of the Tusk-Krawiec tandem would mean for the most valuable Polish company at the peak of its development?
ZB, secondary school
Source: wPolityce