The Prosecutor’s Office in the central city of Lodz is to conduct further investigations on the assassination of former Chief of Police, General Mark Papala.

Investigators from Lodz will hear witnesses of the crime, reexamine evidence and verify information gathered by the Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, which previously investigated the case.

The crime site, which is a car park near Papala’s house, will also be inspected. “We don’t count on finding new evidence there, hoverer, as the murder was committed twelve years ago,” explained Jaroslaw Szubert from the Prosecutor's Office in Lodz.

Police officers from Lodz will look into 500 acts of the investigation. “We plan to finish the investigation by the end of 2011,” says Szubert.

Szubert noted that formally, the Prosecutor’s Office in Lodz will not reopen the investigation, which is ongoing since 1998, but is to continue what the Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw started twelve years ago. Investigators from Lodz took up the case after a thorough analysis of evidence gathered during the past twelve years.

Police chief General Marek Papala was murdered while parking his car meters away from his Warsaw apartment in 1998.

It took Polish authorities several years to apprehend Papala’s killer but they did not manage to establish who commissioned the murder. Apart from Edward Mazur, the Papala contract killing is thought to involve former communist security services agents, high-ranking members of the government and organized crime groups. (mg/jb)

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Source: IAR

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