Mudslinging in the Polish gambling affair

According to a report in the daily Rzeczpospolita, several Polish members of government have acted on behalf of business interests to prevent a law on gambling taxes. Also in Rzeczpospolita Rafal Ziemkiewicz condemns the reaction of the Polish Justice Minister Andrzej Czuma to the report: "Czuma doggedly defends his party colleagues who were so badly incriminated when their discussions with notorious gambling interests were wiretapped by the Central Anticorruption Bureau. He continues to maintain in an authoritative voice that they are 'absolutely innocent'. In so doing he pursues a strategy of defamation by basely attacking both the head of the CBA and the media that uncovered and denounced the scandal. In talks with [Polish TV journalist] Monika Olejnik he went so far as to twice refer to this newspaper as the 'Völkischer Beobachter' [the newspaper of the German Nazi party]."

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