Deputy prosecutor general Kaucz offers resignation after newspaper revelations

Deputy prosecutor general Andrzej Kaucz yesterday evening offered his resignation to Justice Minister Barbara Piwnik. The resignation followed the publication by Gazeta Wyborcza of an indictment and judgment signed by Kaucz in 1983, relating to the case against Barbara Labuda, who was accused of cooperating with the Solidarity opposition. The documents appear to prove that Kaucz lied to Prime Minister Leszek Miller when he claimed that he had not served as prosecutor in the case against Labuda, who is now a presidential adviser. In a radio interview yesterday before receiving Kaucz's resignation, Piwnik insisted that it was not true that Kaucz was leading the investigation into Labuda, since he had been only one of several prosecutors involved in the case. However, Gazeta Wyborcza claims Miller stated that Kaucz had denied being involved in any way in Labuda's prosecution. When asked by the daily yesterday how he could allow himself to be deceived by a deputy prosecutor general, Miller declined to answer. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4, and on-line edition) P.W.