Nieskuteczny nadzór nad GetBack S.A. : Działania państwa wobec spółki zarządzającej wierzytelnościami

Najwyższa Izba Kontroli zbadała na wniosek Prezesa Rady Ministrów działania organów i instytucji państwowych wobec zarządzającej wierzytelnościami spółki GetBack S.A., której funkcjonowanie doprowadziło inwestorów do ogromnych strat finansowych. W artykule skupiono się na wydarzeniach poprzedzających moment ujawnienia jej problemów. Ułatwia to odpowiedź na pytanie, czy było możliwe uniknięcie lub ograniczenie strat nabywców obligacji spółki.

Once the financial problems of GetBack S.A. were disclosed, the value of its corpo rate bonds that had been issued and unsold exceeded PLN 2.5 billion. The company’s shareholders lost money, as they did not have reliable information on the company when they decided to invest. State institutions and bodies promptly launched nume rous checks, which disclosed various irregularities in the company’s activity. It was too late, though, to prevent the investors who acquired corporate bonds from making loses. The main objective of the NIK audit was to verify whether state bodies and in stitutions’ activities towards GetBack S.A. were legal, appropriate, effective and suf ficient to provide protection for non-experts in the finance market. Due to the broad scope of the audit, in the article some selected findings have been presented only. The activities of state bodies and institutions towards the company have been discus sed in chronological order, focusing, in the first place, on the events that preceded the time when its financial problems were disclosed. Such a presentation brings the reader closer to answer the question whether it was possible to prevent the investors who had purchased corporate bonds from loses, or to reduce those loses. In his ar ticle, the author also discusses the most important information about GetBack S.A.