Most of the members of the Sejm’s Special Services Commission condone the actions taken by the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) regarding the corruption scandal in the ministry of agriculture.

The chairman of the commission Paweł Graś from Civic Platform said that the commission was assured that the actions of the CBA were not based on political grounds.

Jędzrej Jędrych from PiS thinks that Mariusz Kamiński, head of the CBA, persuaded the commission that the ‘set-up’ conducted by the CBA was necessary from an operational point of view and in accordance with the law.

Only Samoobrona’s representative on the commission, Andrzej Grzesik, was disappointed with the explanations. In his opinion, a new investigative commission should be convened to explain CBA’s actions towards Andrzej Lepper, as there is a lot of controversy about this case. “We have not yet received any proof of Andrzej Lepper’s guilt,” said Grzesik.

The case concerns bribes for changing the status of farm land from agricultural to residential. According to the CBA, Andrzej Lepper may have been involved. In connection with the CBA’s operation, Self-Defence’s leader lost his position of deputy PM and Minister of Agriculture.

One of the threads of CBA’s operation shows that one of the arrested men claimed that he has influence not only in the Ministry of Agriculture, but also in the Ministry of Construction. This case is also being investigated by the CBA.

During a press conference yesterday, Andrzej Lepper accused the people responsible for the anticorruption operation in the ministry of agriculture of breaking the law. He repeated that he was the target of the operation form the start and that there is no proof of his guilt.