Friday, May 06, 2005

POLISH NEWS BULLETIN

Interior Ministry in Chaos -

Strange things happened yesterday at the Ministry of Interior, following press revelations about policemen supporting a large-scale theft operation. While the Deputy Minister Andrzej Brachmanski was going out of his way to deny every word of the Gazeta Wyborcza article, his boss, Minister Ryszard Kalisz resigned from his position.

I am determined to check all this out and make the culprits suffer, as the involvement of any policeman in criminal activity is unacceptable. Ryszard Kalisz, Ministry of Interior Affairs, on the alleged corruption disclosed by Gazeta Wyborcza daily within the country's police headquarters.

and, in a seperate story...

Interior minister resigns

Poland’s interior minister Ryszard Kalisz has resigned following media reports on corruption on high levels of the police force. The mass circulation Gazeta Wyborcza wrote today that high ranking officers from the police headquarters allegedly cooperated with and provided protection to truck robbers. It claimed that the Central Bureau of Investigation organized a sting operation to target the gang and discovered a police officer among its members. The daily reported that air conditioners stolen from a lorry transport were installed in the police headquarters in Warsaw. The interior ministry and the police firmly denied these revelations.

Earlier, the news media reported that 20 kilos of cocaine and 24 kilos of heroin, seized from drug rings, had disappeared from a police warehouse. Some sources even put the amount of the drugs that vanished at 120 kilos. The scandal caused minister Kalisz to close the Poznan and Lodz branches of the elite Central Bureau of Investigation.
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