PM questioned

7th February 2010

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk began testifying this week before a commission set up to investigate allegations that members of the Civic Platform party (PO) lobbied on behalf of various gambling companies.

While one government spokesman said that Tusk would not be providing any ‘new or spectacular’  information or evidence to the case, the PM allowed for the whole of Thursday for the testimony and stated that the commission would “not be easing off”.

In total, four top politicians left their posts in October last year over the gambling scandal following claims that some had lobbied to block provisions in a bill which would have seen the taxes paid to the state by the gambling ind ...