PiS MP and member of the commission Beata Kempa foresees a "dictatorship" in Poland's future Courtesy of PiS

The parliamentary commission established to investigate alleged corruption in the creation of a new gambling bill has accepted a final report which states that no illegal activity took place.

The report was passed with the votes of the ruling coalition four MPs – three from Civic Platform (PO) and one from the Polish People’s Party (PSL) – in favor of the report, while all three of the opposition MPs on the commission voted against it.

“The report is trash,” commented Bartosz Arłukowicz, an opposition MP from the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), saying the document was full of contradictions.

Beata Kempa, a Law and Justice (PiS) member of the commission, went even further, saying the report represented the beginnings of a “dictatorship” in Poland.

The gambling scandal broke after recorded telephone conversations of then-Civic Platform (PO) parliamentary club leader Zbigniew Chlebowski and Ryszard Sobiesiak, a businessman in the gambling industry, were released to the public. In them, Mr Chlebowski seemingly promises to adjust gambling legislation in Mr Sobiesiak’s favor.

Mr Chlebowski and Mirosław Drzewiecki, minister of sport at the time, both lost their jobs as a result of the scandal.

However, the highest-profile “casualty” of the scandal was current Sejm Speaker Grzegorz Schetyna, who also fell under suspicion and lost his job as deputy prime minister and minister of the interior.

The opposition members of the commission have stated they will write up “dissenting opinions” as annexes to the accepted report.