The spokesperson for the National Institute of Remembrance (IPN) has firmly denied media allegations that the institute has been searching for compromising material on Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

IPN’s Andrzej Arseniuk commented on the recent story from the Dziennik.pl portal, which published an excerpt from a recent interview with the PM: "I heard that a couple of historians from the IPN intensively cooperated with Law and Justice politicians before the campaign," said Tusk.

This might mean, according to the portal, that the institute was digging for dirt on Tusk before the 2005 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Arseniuk assured that no such operation took place.