Deputy Defense Minister fired as aide is placed under official investigation
Deputy Defense Minister Romuald Szeremietiew was sacked by Prime Minister
Jerzy Buzek yesterday, following a request by Defense Minister Bronislaw
Komorowski. The dismissal follows Szeremietiew's assertion on Tuesday that
his closest aide, Zbigniew F., was still in Poland when in reality he was on
his way to Sweden. Zbigniew F. has been questioned by the Warsaw
prosecutor's office, and although he has not been charged with corruption he
has been accused of having illegally accessed NATO documents and of taking
classified documents out of the Defense Ministry offices. The developments
relate to an article in the Rzeczpospolita daily, accusing Zbigniew F. of
corruption in his involvement with the on-going tender to supply aircraft
for the Polish air force. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) A.Z.
