Policewoman faces 10 years in prison for disclosing confidential material

A police officer from Krakow faces up to 10 years in prison for publishing stories in Zly magazine based on confidential police materials. The policewoman wrote 11 articles for the magazine, earning over zl. 8000. "The defendant was not authorized by her supervisors to write for the magazine. The information disclosed enabled the identification of crime victims," said Malgorzata Wilkosz-Sliwa, spokeswoman for the Krakow prosecutor's office. Zly went out of business in the spring after newspaper distribution company Ruch refused to distribute it because of gruesome crime-scene accounts and photographs. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A5),