Social Democrat deputy chairman claims Kubice report was Civic Democrat plot

The Social Democratic Party has said that the leaking of the so-called Kubice report days before last June's national election was a plot masterminded by senior officials from the right-of-centre Civic Democratic party, including current Interior Minister Ivan Langer. Deputy Social Democrat chairman Bohuslav Sobotka told journalists on Friday that the ruling coalition was not interested in solving the Kubice case following the rejection of a proposal on Thursday that a parliamentary commission be established to look into the matter. Jan Kubice, the head of the country's organised crime police unit, submitted a report to the lower house late last May that was almost immediately leaked to the media. His report suggested that organised crime had infiltrated the country's civil service, which was dominated by the Social Democrats at the time.