Ex-communist candle seller makes good with €2bn fortune
He became Poland's biggest borrower but multi-millionaire mogul Zygmunt Solorz-Zak now wants to spend within his means, he tells Marta Waldoch
IN Radom, a blue-collar Polish city better known for producing guns than entrepreneurs, Feliksa Pietruszka remembers the young boy from the neighbouring apartment who sold candles at the local cemetery.
"These were good kids," said Pietruszka, 85, who still lives in the same building with outside toilets and coal-fired stoves for heating, as she sat in a kitchen barely big enough for chairs and a table. "This was just a normal family."
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