Wałęsa probed over alleged perjury by IPN

Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) is investigating whether former president and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa gave false testimony when he said that the documents suggesting he been a paid informant for the communist secret police in the 1970s were forged. Wałęsa, has acknowledged once signing a commitment to inform but insists he never fulfilled it, and a special court exonerated him in 2000. According to IPN experts, the recently unearthed handwritten documents, which suggest Wałęsa collaboration with the communist rulers, are authentic. The IPN investigation was launched two months ago, and is still in preliminary stages. Adam Domiński, head of Wałęsa's office said that there is no evidence to substantiate the documents. “The president maintains that the documents are not genuine and not authored by him,” he explained.