Lepper informant Bogdan Gasinski arrested on charges of corruption

Bogdan Gasinski, the man accused of wrongly informing Andrzej Lepper about cases of corruption among leading politicians, has himself been arrested on charges of corruption. Police in Olsztyn caught up with Gasinski yesterday, having launched a man-hunt for him on Thursday. "This man really covets media exposure. On Wednesday he even visited a newspaper publisher in Bielsko-Biala," said one of the policemen who detained him. Gasinski was supposed to stand trial on December 31, accused of defrauding Inter Commerce of zl.369,000, illegally obtaining medicines worth zl.36,000, forging VAT invoices and threatening to kill an Inter Commerce employee. He failed to show up in court, and will now be kept in detention for at least three months. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.K.