In April, we learned that the PiS authorities do not hesitate to force private entities into operational cooperation.
Gazeta Wyborcza, based on a notarised statement by Robert Z., a whistleblower who was the security manager at the Polish Hotel Holding while also an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, writes that Robert Z. stated that his superiors had coerced the managers of the holding’s hotels (which are owned by the State Treasury) to inform the security services about guests of interest and to cooperate in setting up wiretaps in their rooms. Robert Z. was persuaded to set up an illegal wiretap in the room where Bartosz Kramek, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Open Dialogue Foundation, was staying. The state treasury owns the holding company, so such forced cooperation — if it were to take place — is easy. But there is no guarantee that other private hotel chains are not also being pressured to, for example, constantly monitor certain rooms. The atmosphere of communism in all its glory.
Read all on: polityka.pl
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