Supremacy of Parliament over prosecutor upheld in Rywin case

The Warsaw Prosecutor's Office will hand over all its Rywin case files to the Sejm Investigation Commission, the head of the Prosecutor's Office Zygmunt Kapusta told the Radio Information Agency yesterday. Originally the prosecutor feared the case would become politicized and biased, and so feared sending the files to the Commission. He also restated the Office is ready to further co-operate with the Commission. The decision comes in the wake of the statement by Tomasz Nalecz, the head of the parliamentary investigating team, that no details concerning the earlier testimony by Agora's chairwoman, Wanda Rapaczynska, would be revealed to the public. Kapusta, however stressed that all Sejm's Commission sittings are public, unless the Commission decides to hold a closed sitting. In related news, politicians specializing in state security issues claim the PM should reveal his telephone billing as it might cast some light on the case. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1, A5; www.rmf.pl) J.K.