POLAND - SIGNED, STAMPED AND STOLEN
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Poland, 1989 to 2026. The transition the world admires also built one of Europe's most inventive criminal economies, and most of it ran on paper: a state debt fund whose dollars went abroad, a company that earned interest twice on the same money, tax refunds claimed on invoices, gold deposits without the gold, a credit union that prosecutors say lent to straw borrowers, and a crypto exchange whose bitcoin nobody can move. Beside them run the Warsaw suburb gangs, a deputy minister who leaked a police raid, and two killings no court has solved. Covers Grzegorz Żemek and the Foreign Debt Service Fund, Bogusław Bagsik and Art-B, Jarosław Sokołowski and the Pruszków group, Lew Rywin and Gazeta Wyborcza, Marcin Plichta and Amber Gold, and Sylwester Suszek and Zondacrypto.
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