Privatization in Poland was mostly selling for a fraction of price to western corporations, mostly French, German, American, some to Italians and Brits. In some cases there were local Polish intermediaries with political connections and the transaction made them into the list of richest Poles. In our case the original owners vanished with no descendants, decided for permanent emigration, or the business was originally foreign owned prewar.
It wasn't all fine and dandy here too, but at least buildings and land were mostly returned (corporations were mostly robbed by the communists so there wasn't much to return). Has Polish land not been returned at all to the rightful owners?
