The Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) may have bought weapons and munitions illegally for a year, claims the Dziennik daily.

According to the newspaper’s sources, CBA had not been included in the list of entities licensed to purchase such goods.  The paper says the matter is under investigation by MP Julia Pitera from Civic Platform, who is also drafting a report on CBA activity.

Dziennik has informed that the problem was solved by a decree of administration and interior minister Janusz Kaczmarek and economy minister Piotr Woźniak signed on 1 August 2007, adding CBA to the list of institutions entitled to legally purchase munitions and explosives. 

Yet the decree came into effect a year after CBA’s establishment and the anticorruption agency had bought guns for its officers before August 2007.

"There must have been a loophole.  I cannot believe there would have been such a legal mess", general Mirosław Gawor, former head of the Office for Government Protection (BOR) said astonished.