Police investigating leak of Kubice report overstepped their powers

An inspection team of the Interior Ministry has concluded that the police team which investigated the leak of the so-called Kubice report to the media had overstepped its powers in ordering the wiretapping of 46 prominent politicians, lawyers and managers. Just days before last year's parliamentary elections Jan Kubice, head of the elite unit for fighting organized crime, told a parliamentary committee that Paroubek and other top officials had hindered his unit's work in order to shield Social Democrat colleagues and that criminals had infiltrated the civil service. The report was leaked to the press and outgoing prime minister Jiri Paroubek accused his main rivals, the Civic Democrats, of having fabricated the charges to swing voters ahead of the poll. Before leaving office he launched the mentioned investigation into the leak.