Officers from the Police and Central Investigation Bureau have detained two people working for the Treasury Intelligence Department, who allegedly sold information that was classified as top-secret by the government.

Two civil servants working for the Treasury Intelligence Department, a section of the Finance Ministry, sold classified treasury information on simplifying business procedures for the combined sum of 12,340 zlotys (around 2,400 euros).

The Prosecution in Gdansk, which ordered the arrests, announced on Friday that four other people have been taken into custody over the affair, including a worker of the Fiscal Control Department in Opole, southern Poland, as well as two people who were offering the bribes and an accomplice.

The perpetrators may see sentences of up to ten years if found guilty.

The incident happened after police pin-pointed the mastermind behind the operation as being a 53-year-old resident of Warsaw, and more pertinently, as someone who was one of the officers working for the Treasury Intelligence Department. He has been detained for a period of three months pending further investigation.

Police raided homes in Opole, Biala Podlaska, and in the vicinity of Warsaw earlier in the week, but did not announce it citing security concerns. Among the items seized were computers, hard-drives and other documentation providing evidence of the crime. (jb)

Source: PAP