Polish prosecutors on Monday charged former senator and millionaire businessman Aleksander Gawronik with incitement to murder in the 1992 disappearance of an investigative journalist. Jaroslaw Zietara was investigating tax evasion by businesses involving Gawronik for the Gazeta Poznanska daily when he vanished. His body was never found.
Krakow district prosecutor Piotr Kosmaty said Monday the charges, which carry a maximum penalty of life behind bars, have been forwarded to a court in the western Polish city of Poznan. Prosecutors said the evidence against Gawronik supported allegations of "inciting persons, whose identities have been established, to murder Jaroslaw Zietara". The accused already spent several years behind bars in connection with a separate fraud conviction, but is currently not in custody.