First Politician Jailed in Sex Scandal

19th May 2008

A Łódź court on Monday sentenced the first of three politicians accused in the sex-for-jobs scandal that helped bring down Poland’s last coalition government, signalling there may be trouble ahead for two of the party’s leaders who are also on trial. Samoobrona (Self-Defence) rural protest party official Jacek Popecki was sentenced to 28 months in jail for giving a woman, who had accused his party’s boss of fathering her child, drugs to induce a miscarriage.

A Łódź court on Monday sentenced the first of three politicians accused in the sex-for-jobs scandal that helped bring down Poland’s last coalition government, signalling there may be trouble ahead for two of the party’s ...