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Publikacja: 2025-01-15 17:20

Orlen Trading Switzerland's former CEO detained in UAE

The former CEO of Poland's largest energy concern Orlen's subsidiary, Orlen Trading Switzerland, has been detained on the territory of the United Arab Emirates, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSZ) announced on X. It was indicated that the prosecutor's office, in cooperation with the foreign affairs ministry, is urgently initiating the procedure to extradite the suspect to Poland.


"A Polish citizen Samer A., a former member of the management board of OTS Switzerland Gmbh (Orlen Group), who is wanted with an Interpol red note, has been detained on the territory of the United Arab Emirates," the foreign affairs ministry wrote on X.

The post informed that the prosecutor's office, in close cooperation with the foreign affairs ministry, is urgently starting the procedure for extraditing the suspect to Poland.

"Samer A. is co-suspected of causing damage to OTS Switzerland (Orlen Group) and Orlen companies to the amount of approximately USD 370 million, by entering into three unfavourable oil purchase contracts between August 21, 2023, and December 21, 2023," the ministry added.

In October 2024, the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw announced that it had launched a search and issued a decision to bring charges against Samer A. and Marcin O., former board members of Orlen Trading Switzerland.

It was also reported that the Prosecutor had requested the court to apply temporary detention to the suspects for a period of 3 months from the date of their arrest.

It was indicated that the evidence gathered in the course of the investigation made it possible to draw up decisions to present Samer A. and Marcin O. with charges of causing damage to OTS Switzerland and Orlen in the amount of about USD 378 million.

The damages were allegedly caused by entering into three unfavourable contracts for the purchase of crude oil between August 21, 2023, and December 21, 2023.

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