Screening Court asked to dismiss proceedings against President Kwasniewski
According to a captain of the former communist-era secret service (SB)
Zygmunt Wytrwal, President Aleksander Kwasniewski had not been an informant
for the service before the 1989 fall of communism. Some SB documents say the
President was an agent named "Alek" working for a daily Zycie Warszawy.
Kwasniewski has been in court because a recent law requires presidential
candidates to declare any past connections with the SB. A special Screening
Court prosecutor asked the court to discontinue the probe into the President
's past for lack of evidence. "I fully stand behind my declaration that I
have never collaborated with the SB. I asked the court for a clear ruling,"
Kwasniewski told the reporters after the trial. (Zycie, page 1, Reuters)
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