A newspaper in Poland is claiming that the evidence against the former interior minister, sacked this week for obstructing enquiries into a corruption scandal involving ex-vice PM Andrzej Lepper, may only be charged with giving false evidence.

The newspaper “Dziennik” claims it has established that the prosecutor’s office is only in possession of circumstantial evidence and that it could not charge Janusz Kaczmarek with the leak concerning the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) operation in the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to “Dziennik” the former head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration may be charged with giving false evidence.

Kaczmarek is thought to have lied under oath while being questioned about who warned Lepper about the CBA operation.

The daily says it has found that investigators think it most probable that the leak took place during the meeting of Kaczmarek, Prokom’s President Ryszard Krauze and Self defense’s ’s MP Lech Woszczerowicz in the Warsaw hotel Marriot the day before the ‘sting’ operation.

The prosecutors are said to be in possession of an analysis by a system that localizes mobile phones, which established that the mobiles of Kaczmarek, Krauze and Woszczerowicz were in one place at the same time.