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Polish former deputy PM sentenced

Fri, Feb 12 2010 12:59 CET

byThe Krakow Post

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Polish former deputy PM sentenced

Leader of Samoobrona, Andrzej Lepper, has makeup applied before a television program at the TVN studio in Warsaw in this July 11 2007 photo.
Lepper has been given a two years and three months jail sentence following a sex scandal, local media reported on February 11 2010.
Photo: Peter Andrews

On February 11 2010, the small central Polish city of Piotrków Trybunalski was the setting of a much-publicised court case that ended with the conviction of one of Poland's most notorious political figures.

Andrzej Lepper, former chief of the Self-Defence (Samoobrona) Party and deputy prime minister from 2006 to 2007, has been found guilty of demanding sexual favours in return for employment opportunities.

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