Poland, FBI forge closer ties to fight organised crime

Poland's Justice Minister and visiting US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief Robert S. Mueller Wednesday discussed extraditing from the US to Poland a chief suspect in the 1998 assassination of Poland's ex-national chief of police.

Polish-American businessman Edward Mazur is suspected of having ordered the contract killing of Polish police General Marek Papała who was gunned down in the parking lot outside his Warsaw home.

Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro refused to provide details, but was quoted as saying they had spoken about the issue 'at length' in talks in Warsaw.

Talks between the two officials also focused on beefing-up co- operation between Polish state prosecutors and the FBI, especially in the area of fighting organised crime.

Later Wednesday Mueller focused on fighting organised crime in talks with Poland's National Chief of Police Marek Bieńkowski.

Talks also centred on the creation of a joint working group bringing together the FBI and Poland's equivalent, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBS) to combat organised crime and terrorism as well as fraud, human trafficking, child pornography and cyber-crime.

'Our discussion will continue in Washington within a few days,' Police Chief Bieńkowski announced at the meeting. He expects a formal co-operation agreement would be signed between the FBI and Poland at that time.

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