Polish national style exhibited in Vienna's zl. 10 million jewelry robbery

Assisted by noted private detective Krzysztof Rutkowski, policemen caught two men and a woman accused of robbing 26 kilograms of gold jewelry from a shop in Vienna in 1999. The robbers swam through city canals under the building on a pontoon, broke through several walls and ran away with jewels worth over zl.10 million. The Austrian Security Bureau purposely consulted Rutkowski, since experts described the style of robbery as....typically Polish. At the end of 2000, thanks to cooperation with Rutkowski, police in Wroclaw recognized some of the stolen items and finally managed to arrest the suspects in Strzegom and Swiebodzice. They all refused to plead guilty.(Gazeta Wyborcza, p.7) M.K.