The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), a body in Poland investigating Communist and Nazi era crimes, will be publishing in the next few days a catalogue with the names of people holding public posts, on whom the Institute has materials in its archives. Among the names are top judges and members of the Constitutional Tribunal, which IPN is claiming collaborated with the communist secret service, says a private radio station, RMF.
The judges have denied the claims.
Files on the president, parliamentary speakers, high-ranking representatives of the judiciary and of the Institute itself will also be included.
The Institute President Janusz Kurtyka said that the public persons’ data will be published after a thorough search of the archives is completed.
For this reason, not all names will be published before the October 21 elections.
Kurtyka recalled that since new legislation passed last spring, the Institute is legally obliged to publish such lists.