The 2010 Katyń Families Association
14.11.2012

Warsaw’s District Military Prosecutor’s Office, threatening with criminal proceedings, warned Central Bureau of Investigation (CBŚ) experts not to disclose results of performed research that lead to the discovery of explosives traces on the Tu-154 plane wreckage.

According to leading Polish daily Gazeta Polska Codziennie, Colonel Ireneusz Szelag  from the Warsaw’s District Military Prosecutor’s Office, threatening with criminal proceedings, warned the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBŚ) experts not to disclose to their superiors or anybody else the results of performed research that lead to the discovery of explosives traces on the Tu-154 plane wreckage in Smolensk.

 

A group of 11 individuals worked in Smolensk from September 17 to October 12, including a prosecutor from the Warsaw prosecutor's office, bomb experts and plane construction specialists. Experts brought in from Smolensk records of performed researches and operations undergone on the Tupolev plane wreckage, stored in the detectors’ internal memories. ‘Our colleagues found traces of explosives on Tu-154 wreckage, such as trinitrotoluene (TNT). However, the information was immediately concealed’ – told Gazeta Polska an unnamed CBS officer.

 

According to "GPC" daily, on the day of the Rzeczpospolita publication of October 30th, 2012, the military prosecutor's office in the early hours of the morning contacted officers of the Central Forensic Laboratory and the Central Bureau of Investigation, who were in Smolensk investigating the wreckage. They were informed that if any information was leaked on the research undergone in Smolensk, the officers would face criminal liability.

 

A memo has been drawn up and prepared from these discussions describing the situation, and filed with the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation with the Police Headquarters, as confirmed by police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski. 'Szeląg announced that it was only the duty of the Prosecutor’s Office to release information about any ongoing investigations, due to the law in force; he also warned functionaries with liability against those who leaked any related information’ – said inspector Mariusz Sokolowski, Spokesman of the Chief of Police.

 

Samples from the TU-154M wreckage, designed for laboratory examinations, are still in Russia. The experts who visited Smolensk at the turn of September and October during their examination discovered with the help of specialised equipment traces of explosives on the wreckage debris, as reported by Rzeczpospolita daily on October 30th, 2012.

 

 

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(photo Marcin Pegaz/GP)