Foreign Ministry hard disk thieves get fingered by the fuzz and face five inside

Foreign Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz has confirmed that the disks, which were used between 1994-2002, do contain confidential information. So far though, the investigation has not revealed whether the news organ was the only recipient of sensitive data. One of the accused, a driver at the Foreign Ministry, sold the disks to a computer company for a mere zł.10 as, according to his testimony, he had no idea what they contained. The second person to get his collar felt was a student at Warsaw Technical University, who has since been charged with confidential information and could face up to five years in prison. "It has not been stated that the documents contain any data concerning NATO or the European Union," said Cimoszewicz, adding that most of the information relates to matters which took place before 1999. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.K.