MOSCOW, December 29 – RAPSI. Four Russian servicemen to face trial for pillaging the wreckage of Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s plane which crashed near the city of Smolensk in 2010, Investigative Committee reported on Saturday.

The four servicemen were in charge of cordoning off the crash site. They face up to six years in prison.

A bag with a wallet belonging to Andrzej Przewoźnik, Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites, was found near the site by four conscripts - Sergei Syrov, Igor Pustovarov, Yury Sankov and Artur Pankratov.

Credit cards containing an equivalent of 379,000 rubles ($12,500) were stolen from the wallet with PIN-codes. The soldiers managed to cash 59,000 rubles ($1,940) due to the daily withdrawal limit on the credit cards, the report reads.

The case has been submitted to the Smolensk Harrison Military Court.

The plane carrying Lech Kaczynski, his wife and a host of Polish high-level officials crashed near Smolensk on April 10, 2010, killing 96 people. Poland’s Tu-154 plane crashed during a landing approach in thick fog.

The Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) issued a final report in late July 2011, putting the blame entirely on the Polish crew. Poland, which carried out a separate investigation, partially blamed Russian air controllers for the tragedy.