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WARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said a cryptocurrency firm built with \u201cRussian money\u201d had sponsored Polish politicians from the former national-conservative government as well as a CPAC ( Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a> ) event in Poland last year, where Kristi Noem, the former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, openly backed<\/a> nationalist Karol Nawrocki to win the Polish presidency.<\/p>\n

Tusk was speaking on Friday in the Polish parliament, before a parliamentary vote to overrule Nawrocki who had rejected regulations of the Polish crypto-asset market. Nawrocki has vetoed two separate attempts by the liberal government to regulate this market in the past six months.<\/p>\n

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