MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA
Novosti) - Russian military investigators reported Saturday they have
wrapped up an inquiry into four Russian soldiers who allegedly stole a
wallet found in the wreckage of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane,
which crashed near the western Russian city of Smolensk in 2010.
The
Soviet-made Tu-154 passenger jet went down on April 10, 2010 in thick
fog killing all 96 people on board, including the president, his wife
and many other top Polish officials.
Military investigators of
the Smolensk region reported Saturday that on the day of the crash four
conscripts - Sergei Syrov, Igor Pustovarov, Yury Sankov and Artur
Pankratov - discovered a wallet with a bank card and its pin code that
belonged to top Polish official Andrzej Przewoznik, and withdrew money
from his account. The four will stand trial and face up to six years if
convicted.
Przewoznik, who also died in the crash, had been the
chief organizer of the Katyn memorial events, which the Polish president
was scheduled to attend.
His widow told journalists in 2010 that
some $2,000 disappeared from Przewoznik’s bank account, with the first
transaction taking place on the day of the air crash, April 10, and two
other transactions occurring in the following two days, also in
Smolensk.
In June 2010 the four confessed of stealing a total of 60,345 rubles (about $2,000).
The
Polish dignitaries were flying to Smolensk to attend joint
Polish-Russian ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the 1940
massacre in nearby Katyn Forest, when thousands of captured Polish
officers were executed by the Soviet secret police.
Source: http://en.ria.ru
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