Rywin facing three years inside and a whopping great fine, to boot

In her three-hour speech, Kwiatkowska tried to persuade the judges that Rywin committed a crime of corruption and also stated that it is possible that the group "holding the power" exists but that there is no evidence to prove it. She also found no proof that Rywin could influence the writing of the media law at the centre of the scandal, which led Tomasz Nałęcz, head of the Sejm investigation committee into the affair, to suggest she had formed her opinion before the committee received documents from Agora showing just how Rywin could have influenced the media law-making procedure. Meanwhile, Jan Rokita of the Civic Platform wondered whether "the court will accept the version that presents Rywin as a madman." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) D.W.