Sunday, April 7, 2019

Polish Millionaire Arrested Over Eavesdropping Scandal

A fugitive Polish "multi-millionaire" at the heart of an eavesdropping scandal... in 2015 has been arrested in Spain, police said Saturday.

Marek Falenta was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in Poland in December 2016 for setting up an eavesdropping system in swanky restaurants in Warsaw that saw waiters record conversations between business-people and politicians.

That led to a major scandal that erupted in 2014 with media publishing extracts of incriminating conversations... more