This is a list of major
political scandal
In politics, a political scandal is an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage. Politicians, government officials, party officials and lobbyists can be accused of various illegal, corrupt, unethic ...
s in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
:
* 2001: corruption related to
LFO scandal
The Laboratory for Fractionation of Plasma scandal (also known as ''LFO scandal'' or ''LFO affair'') is a phrase used to describe events connected to the investigation which started in 1995 about an investment to build a Laboratory for Franctionati ...
revealed, investigation ongoing as of 2009
* 2002:
Orlengate
Orlengate ( pl, :pl:Afera Orlenu, Afera Orlenu) was one of the biggest political affairs in modern Poland, Polish history. Disclosed in 2004, the scandal began with the arrest, on 7 February 2002, by the Urząd Ochrony Państwa (UOP, Office for Sta ...
* 2002:
Rywin affair
* 2005:
Wildstein list
The Wildstein List is a list which contains the names of some 162,617 (originally thought to contain 240,000) individuals who are believed to either have worked for the Polish Służba Bezpieczeństwa (secret intelligence service of the socialist ...
* 2005: allegations that USA had secret prisons (
black sites) in Poland (and other countries) have arose, investigations and discussions in Poland continued to at least mid-2010s
* 2007:
Oleksy tapes The Oleksy tapes are tapes secretly recorded during a 2006 conversation between Józef Oleksy and Aleksander Gudzowaty. In the recordings, former Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is t ...
made public
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Political scandals in Poland
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
Scandals
A scandal can be broadly defined as the strong social reactions of outrage, anger, or surprise, when accusations or rumours circulate or appear for some reason, regarding a person or persons who are perceived to have transgressed in some way. Th ...