Ministers’ phones illegally tapped by CBA

16th October 2009

Polish politicians and government officials may have had a taste of what it was like to operate in the old communist days after it emerged that the law may have been eavesdropping on their phone conversations.

A series of stories in the press explained that prosecutors in the southern town of Rzeszow had launched an investigation into the activities of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) and whether it tapped illegally the phone calls of five politicians in 2007.

The five, all from Samobrona, which then formed part of the Law-and-Justice led coalition government, had their phone conversations monitored by the CBA as part of its investigation into possible corruption surrounding a sale ...