Zbigniew S. charged over documents leak

Zbigniew S., a businessman who published on Tuesday on his Facebook profile documents from an investigation into the so called "tape scandal", was detained and charged with disclosing secrets related to an open investigation, the next day. The businessman, who runs a blog and has recently began to publish his own newspaper, claims that he has found the material on Chinese servers while searching the internet. Zbigniew S. was barred from leaving the country as he faces up to two years in prison. The published material consists of transcripts of witness hearings and includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, as well as other sensitive information about persons involved in the investigation. The illegally made recordings were published by Wprost weekly last year and involved Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, then Interior Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz and head of the National Bank of Poland Marek Belka, among others.