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WARSAW - Poland's Deputy Prime Minister will be asked to take a paternity test in an investigation into allegations he and a close associate recruited female workers in exchange for sex, prosecutors said.
Leftist Self-Defence Party leader Andrzej Lepper has denied the allegations since they emerged in December, saying they resulted from a conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the Government.
Lepper associate Stanislaw Lyzwinski has been charged in the affair despite a DNA test which quashed allegations by former party councillor Aneta Krawczyk that he was the father of her 3-year-old daughter. Krawczyk's lawyer, however, has pushed for Lepper to also be tested and the prosecution service said yesterday it would ask him to submit a sample of his DNA next week.
Lepper said he would submit to a DNA test if asked by prosecutors.
Poland's chief prosecutor said this month there were no grounds to charge Lepper or request his parliamentary immunity against prosecution be lifted.
Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he would sack Lepper if prosecutors charged him in the affair.
- REUTERS
