Polish leaders try to limit damage in new scandal

Published June 16, 2014 2:51pm ET



WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister said Monday the release of a secretly taped conversation between two top officials that hints at impropriety amounts to an organized attempt to overturn his government.

Polish magazine Wprost on Saturday published the recording in which central bank head Marek Belka told Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz last July that he would help the government get out of financial trouble if it fired the finance minister.

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