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Oleksy tapes

2000s political scandal in Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ7086330 ↗
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The Oleksy tapes are tapes secretly recorded during a 2006 conversation between Józef Oleksy and Aleksander Gudzowaty. In the recordings, former Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Prime Minister Józef Oleksy denounces colleagues, and reveals shady aspects of Polish political life. The recordings were published by Polish media in 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oleksy tapes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.