Tape scandal

‘Waiters’ conspiracy rocks Poland

Published on 23 June 2014 at 13:07

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Three waiters set up a ‘recording studio’ in three Warsaw restaurants frequented by politicians and businessmen, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. The conspirators recorded their influential customers conversations for more than a year before selling them to businessmen. However, someone got hold of the illegal wiretaps and passed them on to Wprost weekly, which published some of them last week triggering a nation-wide scandal and calls for the resignation of PM Tusk’s cabinet.
In the latest batch of conversations released by the magazine, Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski tells former finance minister Jacek Rostowski that the Polish-American alliance is ‘worthless’ and criticises Tusk’s government for giving the US ‘a blowjob’ while antagonising French and German allies.

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