MOSCOW. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Russia's Investigative Committee will hand over to Polish officials test results that will help to identify who was in the cockpit when the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane came crashing down near Smolensk in western Russia on April 10.
"Following the completion of forensic tests on the persons killed in the air crash, including the persons who might have been inside the cockpit, copies of the conclusions with enclosed layouts and photos will be sent to the Polish authorities through the Russian Prosecutor General's Office," Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Thursday.
All in all, replies to five requests for legal assistance and 17 volumes of procedural documents from the criminal case files have been sent by Russian investigators to Poland.
"The six volumes of investigative documents submitted to the Polish authorities earlier contained copies of the conclusions of molecular-genetic forensic tests for identifying the bodies and fragments of the victims' bodies; 28 transcripts of interviews with Severny airfield staff and other witnesses; 39 protocols of inspection of the items and documents found at the crash scene," Markin said.
The following eleven volumes provided with the Prosecutor General's Office for further handover to the Polish authorities contain copies of the conclusions of forensic tests on 107 fragments of the victims' bodies, with photos, layouts, as well as the results of chemical-toxicological analyses; 33 protocols of inspection of the items and documents found on the crash scene; 28 transcripts of interrogation of police officers; 23 transcripts of interrogation of civilian witnesses of the crash; 19 protocols of the scene inspection with photos and layouts.