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Russian soldiers held for defrauding crash victim
WARSAW (June 08 2010): Four Russian soldiers are accused of stealing from the bank account of a victim of the April 10 air crash in which Polish president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others died, a Polish prosecutor said Monday. "One hour and 20 minutes after the catastrophe, the first fraudulent withdrawal was made using one of two bank cards belonging to Andrzej Przewoznik," Monika Lewandowska, spokeswoman for the Warsaw regional prosecutor's office, told AFP.
Przewoznik, who headed Poland's national war memorial committee, was part of the delegation that was killed en route to Katyn in western Russia for a ceremony marking the 1940 massacre of thousands of Polish army officers at the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
"During the three days after the catastrophe, from April 10 to 12, there were a total 11 withdrawals for the total sum of 6,000 zloty (1,445 euros, 1,730 dollars)," Lewandowska said. Polish government spokesman Pawel Gras said Monday that the Russian soldiers suspected of the fraud had been arrested.
"The authors of this ignoble act have already been arrested in Russia," Gras said. "They are four Russian soldiers, not officials from the OMON (Russian anti-riot militia) as indicated by error on Sunday," he added. "I made this error as I thought that only OMON militiamen were at the crash site, but other units were also there," Gras said.
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WARSAW (June 08 2010): Four Russian soldiers are accused of stealing from the bank account of a victim of the April 10 air crash in which Polish president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others died, a Polish prosecutor said Monday. "One hour and 20 minutes after the catastrophe, the first fraudulent withdrawal was made using one of two bank cards belonging to Andrzej Przewoznik," Monika Lewandowska, spokeswoman for the Warsaw regional prosecutor's office, told AFP.
Przewoznik, who headed Poland's national war memorial committee, was part of the delegation that was killed en route to Katyn in western Russia for a ceremony marking the 1940 massacre of thousands of Polish army officers at the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
"During the three days after the catastrophe, from April 10 to 12, there were a total 11 withdrawals for the total sum of 6,000 zloty (1,445 euros, 1,730 dollars)," Lewandowska said. Polish government spokesman Pawel Gras said Monday that the Russian soldiers suspected of the fraud had been arrested.
"The authors of this ignoble act have already been arrested in Russia," Gras said. "They are four Russian soldiers, not officials from the OMON (Russian anti-riot militia) as indicated by error on Sunday," he added. "I made this error as I thought that only OMON militiamen were at the crash site, but other units were also there," Gras said.
Channel NewsAsia - Russian soldiers held for defrauding crash victim - channelnewsasia.com
