Marta Kaczynska. Photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa

Prosecutors in the central town of Plock have rejected an appeal from Marta Kaczynska, the daughter of the late presidential couple who had earlier demanded an investigation into the alleged surveillance of Lech Kaczynski by the secret services.

The case refers to Lech Kaczynski’s trip to Georgia in 2008, where he visited Tbilisi and areas affected by conflict between Russia and Georgia, and where Kaczynski was supposedly subject to illegal surveillance operations undertaken by the Internal Security Agency (ABW).

In February, politicians from Law and Justice started calling the case the ‘Polish Watergate,’ yet calls from the opposition party to launch a public enquiry into the matter may fall short as Prosecutors in Plock ruled in March that there was no surveillance of the late president, and as such would not release the ABW report into the Georgia visit.

With the rejection of Marta Kaczynska’s appeal, the daughter of the late presidential couple is now expected to lodge a complaint in the courts.

“In our belief we need to take evidence in court proceedings to rule out any crimes,” Kaczynska’s lawyer Grzegorz Ksepko told journalists, Monday.

“The rejection to look into the case means that the Prosecutor must have seen the appeal, read it and decided not to do anything because there has been no crime committed,” Ksepko said, adding that “it was taken for granted that no crime had taken place.” (jb)

Source: IAR/PAP