Poland's squeaky clean image post-communism threatened by secret tape


  • World
  • Thursday, 19 Jun 2014

WARSAW (Reuters) - The furore over a secretly recorded conversation between two senior Polish officials has so far focussed on comments that call into question the independence of the central bank.

But businessman Zbigniew Jakubas says he is more upset about another part of the tape: a section in which, according to a transcript, Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz and central bank governor Marek Belka discuss how they can pressure Jakubas's company to charge less for the coins it was proposing to mint under a state contract.

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