Eighteen people have been detained, among them Poles, Vietnamese, Chinese and Ukrainians, for their part in a three-year fraud that saw money transferred overseas.
Following the brutal killings, local villagers on a bus who had watched the young family being battered to death were paid hush money. The subsequent investigation concluded it had been an accident until the conspiracy of silence was broken by a young boy.
A suspended sentence should not apply to the crime of pedophilia and the government wants to implement this in the form of legislation, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday at a press conference after a cabinet meeting.
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and President Andrzej Duda on Friday remembered the victims of the World War II Katyn Forest Massacre.
Tuesday marked the 78th anniversary of the 1940 Katyn Forest Massacre of around 22,000 Polish army officers, policemen and members of the intelligentsia by the Soviet security agency NKVD. Most of the executions took place in the Katyn Forest in west Russia.
Poland's Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro and the Chief of Police Jaroslaw Szymczyk on Friday announced that their agencies have obtained the equivalent of PLN 1.27 billion (EUR 300 million) in criminally-laundered money.
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) has detained Marek W., an employee at one of the ministries responsible for economic policy, on suspicion of co-operation with Russian intelligence officers, PAP has learned on Monday.
It is possible that Poland will take steps towards Russia either on a national level or in a coalition of countries in response to the attempted murder of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal, PAP was told on Thursday by Deputy Foreign Minister Bartosz Cichocki.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin visited Poland on Saturday to attend a ceremony commemorating Ukrainian soldiers killed by the Polish underground in 1945.
Polish police officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBSP) working in co-operation with the FBI detained a 44-year-old Ukrainian citizen suspected of committing cyber crimes, PAP has learned.
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