Poland seeks US extradition

Poland’s Minister of Justice has flown to the US in the hope of the extraditing a Polish businessman believed to have masterminded the assassination of national police chief General Marek Papala in 1998.

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, an unknown assassination. The lengthy investigation has led public prosecutors to Polish businessman Edward Mazur, who’s now living in the U.S. Mazur is believed to have ordered the assassination. Polish justice authorities have been trying for the past 16 months to extradite Mazur. Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro.

‘I would like to see Edward Mazur brought to Justice. I have hard evidence in hand that many prove his guilt.’

But Criminal Lawyer Dagmara Woznikowska thinks that extraditing Mazur will be easier said than done

“Edward Mazur is a person who lives in the United States permanently and he is accused by Polish prosecutors of killing General Papala, who used to be Chief of Polish Police. There is a story that he would have been responsible to illuminate the Polish Mafia and that’s why he was killed. Probably Mr. Mazur was the person who ordered the execution. The US doesn’t want to extradite him to Poland. It is a question of political will. Poland doesn’t have such an agreement with the United States.”

Shortly before his death, General Papala was nominated to be a liaison officer within the EU in the fight against international organized Crime Groups.
Source:Report by Bogdan Zaryn,
polskieradio.pl