Phone tapping case reopened

26th March 2010

Warsaw’s District Court has reopened the case of the journalist phone tapping scandal.

In July 2008, it was alleged that journalists from TVN, Rzeczpospolita and Wojciech Sumlinski (who at the time was under investigation for trying to sell articles of a confidential report on the military secret service) were victims of wire tapping by the Internal Security Agency (ABW).

Despite Poznan’s Prosecutor’s Office ordering deputy head of ABW Jacek Maka to apologise for an infringement of civil rights last year, the case is now to be reinvestigated.  ...