Prosecutors say they have proof Sobotka was source of leak

According to Gazeta Wyborcza, prosecutors from Kielce apparently have proof that Deputy Minister Zbigniew Sobotka, in charge of the Interior Ministry (MSWiA) and police, as well as being Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Deputy, was the source of the Starachowice information leak. On Tuesday, the General Prosecutor and the Minister of Justice Grzegorz Kurczuk received a motion for annulling Sobotka's immunity. Kurczuk asked for a few more days to make a final decision concerning this issue. Interior Minister Krzysztof Janik claims that he had still full trust in Sobotka. "The prosecutor for sure has a reason to formulate this motion, but this does not prove guilt," explained Janik. SLD Deputy chairman Józef Oleksy said, "If anything happened, then a large portion of Deputies treat the leakage, as a slip, rather than breaking the rules". A few SLD Deputies, however, claim that Sobotka should relinquish his immunity on his own. Sobotka claimed Tuesday, "I had no information, so I could not have transmitted it." (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 4) M.M