The late President Kaczynski - under surveillance?

The opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) has cried foul over the alleged surveillance of the late president Lech Kaczynski by Poland's internal security services (ABW) in relation to the leader's trip to the Georgian war zone in 2008.

Politicians from the party led by the dead president’s twin brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski are already referring to the matter as the “Polish Watergate”, and are calling for the allegations to be investigated by a public prosecutor.

Based on their interpretation of leaked documents, PiS politicians are claiming that President Kaczynski and his wife were subjected to illegal surveillance by the ABW in the wake of the Russian-Georgian war in 2008.

Insinuations have already been made in the direction of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in what could develop into another bitter political row.

“Did the PM know about this?” asked PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk at a press conference this morning.

“Did he accept it? Did he take a decision regarding these matters?”

Mularczyk said that the wide-ranging inquiry into the Georgian visit gave the ABW the opportunity to collect “sensitive” material relating to the President and his wife, through access to phone taps.

PiS is expected to submit a formal complaint tomorrow to the National Security Bureau.

The Warsaw regional prosecutor’s office denies the late president was under the watchful eye of Poland’s internal security services.

“There was no surveillance of President Lech Kaczynski or his wife,” said Warsaw prosecutor’s spokesman Dariusz Ślepokura, Thursday afternoon. (nh/pg)

Source: TVP