Czech TV: Langer switched phones to mislead investigators

The Interior Ministry inspectorate is suspecting Interior Minister Ivan Langer of using borrowed mobile phones and SIM cards to make phone calls with members of the anti-organised crime police squad in order to prevent his calls from being monitored. Czech Television which broadcast the report on Sunday says Mr Langer denies the allegation. Ivan Langer's mobile phone number was among several dozen numbers monitored last year in connection with the leaked police report known as the "Kubice report" which suggested there were links between organised crime and the then ruling Social Democrats. The party says that the leak of the report harmed it in the general elections which ended in a narrow victory for the right-of-centre Civic Democrats. In all, 46 phone numbers were monitored during the police operation, some of them belonging to lawyers and also children.