Russia has charged four of its soldiers with theft for stealing credit cards from the corpse of a victim of the plane crash that killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski.
The four used the cards to withdraw some €1,500 from the bank account of the official.
They were all based at the military airport in western Russian where Mr Kaczynski's plane crashed on 10 April.
'Today, four soldiers have been charged with theft,' the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.
It said the conscripts had been inside the police cordon following the crash.
'All four suspects have confessed and are actively co-operating with investigators,' it said.
Polish prosecutors have said the four used the cards to withdraw a total of 6,000 zlotys from the bank account of Andrzej Przewoznik, who headed Poland's national war memorial committee.
He was part of the Polish delegation heading to Katyn near the western Russian city of Smolensk for a ceremony marking the 1940 massacre of thousands of Polish army officers at the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Mr Kaczynski's Russian-made Tupolov Tu-154 plane crashed while attempting to land in thick fog at the Severny military aerodrome near Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board.
The four soldiers charged were named as Sergei Syrov, Igor Pustovar, Artur Pankratov and Yury Sankov.
In an embarrassing admission for the Russian armed forces, investigators said that three of the four recruits had previous convictions for robbery, forgery of money and theft.
They are now being held under observation by the commanders of their unit, the statement said without naming the unit.
The men have been charged with premeditated theft by a group, an offence that carries a maximum jail sentence of five years.
