Posted on 11/25/2006 9:14:06 AM PST by lizol
Poland suggests Russia may have falsified documents in meat spat
Published: November 25, 2006
WARSAW, Poland: Poland's justice minister suggested Saturday that Russia may have been behind forged documents accompanying Polish meat exports, the discovery of which led to a ban on Polish products.
Zbigniew Ziobro said the documents appeared to have been falsified outside Poland by people accustomed to the Cyrillic alphabet.
The Polish-Russian trade dispute has swelled into a larger standoff between Russia and the European Union.
Russia claims that Poland tried to get substandard meat onto the Russian market using fake health documents. Poland agrees that the documents were forged but claims that the meat was safe.
Russia imposed the ban on the Polish imports over a year ago. It says that Polish meat fails to meet health standards, and that Poland tried to get it to the Russian market with the falsified documents.
But Ziobro told Poland's PAP news agency that Polish meat is up to standard, and that prosecutors have evidence veterinary certificates testifying to their safety were falsified outside Poland to make the meat appear unsafe.
Ziobro said prosecutors in the southeastern Polish city of Tarnow have proven during a yearlong investigation that the documents were falsified by "somebody who on a day-to-day basis uses the Cyrillic alphabet," the script used in Russia and some other Slavic countries. He did not elaborate on how that was clear.
Poland uses the Latin alphabet.
Russian accusations that Poland tried to send meat to Russia backed up by falsified documents "have no basis in fact," Ziobro was quoted as saying.
"The certificates weren't even produced at the Polish Security Printing Works," Ziobro added, referring to the government's producer of official documents. They "were on a different paper."
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Sounds like someone in Russia ordered the brand new
Dan Rather School of Forgery Mail Order Course.
Asking me????
I don't understand why you view this as nonsense. If the Russian government is capable of poisoning people in Britain, they would surely be capable of forging meat inspection documents to try to take a hit at Poland.
Health certificates for food are very precisely written. If there were only one or two cases the meat would have been destroyed and nothing much would have been said. It happens frequently. However, there apparently have been several cases, and the Russians would not complain on this unless they have the evidence in the certificates and samples of the meat to provide the EU.
If you considered Russia as any other country - you'd be right Gary.
But it's not.
It's the putinist Russia.
There is nothing dirtier than a meat fight.
ROFL!! Your posts are so good I might have to start looking for them.
Just for the record I always believed that all of the supposed bad food, wine, mineral water, snails, whatever, was all a bunch of lies.
I don't know,..those Polonium certificates are pretty hard to forge.
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