Prosecutors drop case against Sienkiewicz and Belka

Prosecutors have decided to discontinue investigation in the case of Interior Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz and National Bank of Poland President Marek Belka, who were illegally recorded last year discussing the future of the government. In recordings published by weekly Wprost earlier this year, Sienkiewicz and Belka were recorded discussing the dismissal of Jacek Rostowski from the post of finance minister in exchange for support in financing the budget deficit. Later in 2013, Rostowski was replaced by Mateusz Szczurek. The prosecutors said that they have found “no evidence” of an informal accord aimed at infringing the autonomy of the NBP. Neither of the public officers was found to have crossed their scope of competence.