Poland intends to put on the wanted list experts from Russia in the case of the Tu-154 crash

The Polish Prosecutor's Office intends to file charges and initiate a search for 43 Russian medical experts in the case of the crash of the Polish presidential TU-154M plane in the Smolensk region in 2010. This was announced on April 1 by the head of the investigation team of the Polish Prosecutor's Office, Krzysztof Schwartz.

According to him, the protocols of the forensic medical reports on the autopsy of the victims, which were prepared by doctors from Russia as part of the investigation of the crash, allegedly contained "a large amount of false information."

"We will send petitions to the court for the application of search arrest, which is necessary to launch an international search," the Onet portal quotes Schwartz as saying.

In April last year, it was reported that the Polish prosecutor's office could not confirm the version about the explosion on board the Tu-154. In the same month, Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh, Deputy Prime Minister and current Minister of National Defense of the country, noted that the plane crash near Smolensk was a tragic accident, and other theories were not justified.

In December 2023, the Deputy Minister of National Defense of the Republic, Cesari Tomczyk, noted that the Polish commission for the re-investigation of the plane crash lied and embezzled public funds. Kosinyak-Kamysh signed the decision to liquidate the commission and revoked the powers of its members. Jan Grabec, head of the Office of the Polish Prime Minister, later noted that the commission had falsified the expertise of American and European specialists.

As a result, Poland officially refused to file a lawsuit against the Russian Federation in the ECHR in the case of the plane crash. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that the cause of the crash has long been known and this page "should be turned over."

The Tu-154 plane of Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed on landing at Smolensk-Severny Airport in 2010. There were 96 people on board, all of them died.

The Commission was established after the reports of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) and a government commission led by former Polish Interior Minister Jerzy Miller were published in 2011. According to the IAC report, the immediate cause of the crash was the crew's decision not to leave for an alternate airfield, and the systemic reasons were deficiencies in flight support and crew training.