Russian fraud soldiers bodysnatching
Now hear this. On 10 April 2010 a Tupolev aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board. These included the Polish president Lech Kaczyński and his wife, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Polish government officials, 12 members of the Polish parliament and senior members of the Polish clergy.
The crash site was secured by the Russian army. A short time after the crash a creditcard belonging to one of the victims jumped back to life again. It should not surprise anyone that this got detected.
“The criminal case has been started against four conscript soldiers on charges of theft by an organized group. The four were in the cordon at the scene of the crash,” the Investigation Committee of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office said.
The soldiers took several cards but only used one of them to withdraw cash, stealing about 60,345 rubles (about $1,900) in several transactions, the committee said. The committee said the suspects were identified by the command of the military base that services the military airport near Smolensk, Russia, where the plane crashed April 10….All four soldiers have confessed and are actively cooperating with the investigation, the committee said.”
According to a CNN report, Russian State TV reported the soldiers admitted they spent the money at a local cafe. Three of the four suspects had a criminal record before they were conscripted into the army, the committee said. They are now being held at their military base “under the observation of their command.”
Although we are not sure what “observation of their command” would entail, we are probably better of guessing what it is rather than experiencing it.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/08/russia.poland.crash.theft/index.html?hpt=T1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash
