Civil Platform hit by corruption scandal

According to the paper, in July PO MP Lidia Staroń became the owner of a plot in the center of Olsztyn worth several hundred thousand złoty for the price of zł.749, thanks to real estate legislation she had worked on during the previous, Law and Justice-led Sejm.

PO's parliamentary club later decided it would not expel Staroń, however, citing a lack of evidence. A decision on whether to expel her from the party itself will be made next week.

Staroń claimed that the press reports were libelous and that she had fallen victim to scheming by an "układ" - a shadowy network of people acting for their own benefit. Staroń denied having benefited from the legislation.

In response, Rzeczpospolita revealed documents from an Olsztyn residential cooperative saying that Staroń had received perpetural usufruct rights to the plot.