The supreme state attorney, Renata Vesecka, has begun an investigation
into whether the leaking of a secret police report was illegal. The
report, by the head of the organised crime unit Jan Kubice, accuses Prime
Minister Jiri Paroubek and other senior government officials of having
ties with the mafia. The confidential report appeared on the internet
shortly after Mr Kubice presented it to the Chamber of Deputies defence
and security committee on Monday. Police president Vladislav Husak said on
Thursday a four-member group of police specialists would start checking the
content of the confidential report.
Prime Minister Paroubek reacted angrily to the allegations, saying they
were politically motivated and designed to damage his Social Democrats
ahead of elections this weekend.