True crime and politics, including: new SMS scams; the recycled food product scam; the Bulgarian election stalemate; the EU targets CR PM Babis; the Polish Carpathian sex scandal and how cops solved the murder of a Polish prime minister
In this episode of Two Steps East CEE private detective P. "Konrad" Smith tackles some rather vocal letters--and addresses a new wave of SMS scams, as well as bigger "recycled" food product scams that have plagued manufacturers in the region for years.
Also in this episode: Could Bulgaria be heading for its third round of early elections this year--or maybe... a fourth round as well?
This segment also addresses the EU's take on Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and the Agrofert conflict-of-interest/EU subsidy story and finally two past/present true crime stories in Poland, the first being the resurgence and possible retrial of suspects in the Carpathian Sex Affair (as well as the suicide in prison of former star boxer Dawid K.). Meanwhile, the trial of gangsters implicated in past kidnappings--and the work of Polish CBSP teams--has led to the ongoing trial of the alleged murderers of Polish Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz and his wife, Alicja Solska, who were killed during a robbery in Anin in 1992. This backstory is both fascinating and heroic--and you're getting it here at Two Steps East.
(Intro and outro music copyright Preston Smith/Marek Tymkoff/all rights reserved.)