By Sam Tobin

LONDON (Reuters) -A former Polish government official and close associate of ex-Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appeared in a London court on Monday, fighting extradition to face corruption charges relating to contracts for power generators to Ukraine.

Michal Kuczmierowski was head of Poland’s Government Strategic Reserves Agency, referred to by its Polish acronym RARS, from 2021 before he was arrested in Britain in 2024.

Kuczmierowski had been repeatedly praised by Morawiecki, including for organising a military hub at the Rzeszow airport in eastern Poland after the war in neighbouring Ukraine began.

Polish prosecutors last year charged Kuczmierowski in relation to contracts worth over 321 million Polish zloty ($88.7 million) for the purchase of over 1,600 power generat

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