Former vice-prime minister and agricultural minister Andrzej Lepper faces a cumulative total of 15 years imprisonment if his parliamentary immunity is revoked, reports a Polish weekly current affairs magazine.

According to the weekly, public investigators will charge that they have good evidence that the former deputy PM was lying when he claimed it was the Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro who warned him about the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau’s operation against him in the Department of Agriculture, and not Janusz Kaczmarek, as the government is claiming.

Lepper was subsequently dismissed from the cabinet.

Lepper may be pressed with a charge consisting of three elements – false testimony, false accusation of committing a crime and obstructing the Public Prosecutor’s investigation.

If convicted Lepper could face up to 5 years’ imprisonment.

The weekly reports that the Public Prosecutors are also considering charging Lepper with overstepping the powers of a public servant, who acted to the detriment of the public or private interest and committed such an act to achieve financial gain.

This may result in up to 10 years in prison.

Lepper denies all allegations and claims that it was Zbigniew Ziobro who tipped him off that he was about to framed for corrupt practices within the agricultural ministry when he was in charge.

Parliament will be asked to remove the controversial politician’s immunity in ‘two or three week’s time,’ says the magazine.