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| Polish Prosecutor-Officer Takes His Job Deadly Seriously |
| 2012-01-12 |
| The Polish military prosecutor who shot himself in the head on Monday just moments after cutting short a press conference claims he had a US$782,000 contract on his head. Colonel Mikolaj Przybyl said Tuesday his suicide attempt was an effort to expose what he called “serious corruption” in defence procurement contracts and said there was a contract out to kill him. Przybyl shot himself on Monday during a break in a press conference in Poznan, western Poland, at which he had spoken about issues his office was probing, notably claims of high-level corruption in the Polish military. “My act was influenced by the cases I am investigating: one of them is the most serious involving financial issues in the Polish military,” Col. Przybyl told Poland’s PAP news agency Tuesday as he recovered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his cheek. He is expected to leave hospital within days. He said his act was intended to prevent the dismantling of the institution of military prosecutors, and that his recent high-level corruption probe had sped up steps being taken to get rid of military prosecutors and replace them with civilians. “I was defending the people, whom I know and who do excellent work. I wanted the prosecutor’s office to survive,” he said. In his news conference, Col. Przybyl had criticized media leaks from the ongoing probe into the 2010 crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, mostly senior Polish military officials, in Smolensk, western Russia. Reporters at the conference said Col. Przybyl then asked them to leave the room so that he could take, in his words, “a break”. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 Colonel Mikolaj Przybyl said Tuesday his suicide attempt was an effort to expose what he called “serious corruption” in defence procurement contracts and said there was a contract out to kill him. So does he want the 782 grand now? This reads like a bad Polish joke. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-01-12 00:24 |