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Complaints of human trafficking, abuse of power, obstruction of a judge, prosecutor, preliminary investigation officer, organization of serious harm to human health and other criminal offenses were made against 8 citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, three of whom they are accused of bearing false witness. Of these defendants, two lawyers working in the Klaipėda region, Aivaras Surblys and Marius Navickas.
2017 In the spring of 2006, in the home of one of the defendants Virgilijus Valius, 6 sealed cans containing a very large quantity of 1,033.28 g of the drug cocaine were found.
During the pre-trial investigation, the person was arrested and given a report on suspicion of illegal possession of a large amount of the drug, reports the GP.
During this pre-trial investigation, data was received that V. Valius, in order to avoid criminal responsibility for the crime committed, that is, the acquisition of cocaine, found and persuaded a socially vulnerable innocent person for a monetary reward (30,000 euros) with his lawyer A. Surblis and another person. ) to assume the criminal responsibility of V. Valu. The defendant found the person who confessed to allegedly committing the crime and was arrested for 14 months.
The data collected during the investigation makes it possible to reasonably assume that according to the plan drawn up, the defendants A. Surblys and V. Valius had to seek lawyers for this person who applied illegal defenses not to protect the interests of this person, but of V. Valius. The latter had to pay monetary compensation to the culprit and pay for his defense. In this way, the defendant A. Surblys promised V. Valis to help the latter avoid criminal responsibility by trafficking in human beings and illegally abusing him to convict an innocent person instead of V. Valius.
Therefore, V. Valius and A. Surblys agreed to prevent prosecutors and investigating officers from establishing objective truth in the pre-trial investigation initiated.
V. Valius is also accused of organizing preparations with his accomplices to seriously injure the head of the specialized unit of the Klaipėda County Police Commissariat due to his official duties. The members of the organized group had a well thought out crime plan and data was collected on the official’s private life. 2018 In April, law enforcement officers arrested two defendants who planned to assault a police officer and a prosecutor.
In order to secure important interests of justice, to examine the case objectively and completely and to resolve the issue of transferring the case from a regional court to another regional court, this criminal case has been transferred to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal.
This is the ninth criminal case to separate from the possible large-scale corruption case.
The pre-trial investigation in the case transferred to court was conducted by a law enforcement investigation team consisting of officials from the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office and the Organized Crime Investigation Units of the Main County Police Commissariat of Klaipėda, the Klaipėda Board of the Special Investigation Service and the Vilnius Board. The pretrial investigation was organized and supervised by prosecutors from the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department of the Attorney General’s Office.
This is the ninth criminal case to separate from the possible large-scale corruption case.
We remind you that the Šiauliai Regional Court is currently considering a criminal case related to the illegal possession, acquisition, sale and transportation of a large quantity of drugs for profit. Nerijus Mikelionis and Gintautas Bieliauskas, residents of Kaunas, are accused of illegally possessing, transporting and selling more than 1.5 kg of narcotics containing 1,033.28 g of cocaine, while V. Valius of Klaipėda, in the organized group , acquired and transported these substances and storage.
According to the vice president of the Lithuanian Council of Lawyers, Mindaugas Kukaitis, the activities of these lawyers have not yet been suspended, because the only information the Bar Association has had so far is a description of the suspicions presented in February 2019.
“In the initial stage, we had just received information, here I am talking about the events of February 2019, that these individuals were suspected according to specific articles, but when we were asked for more detailed information on which the suspicion is based, we did not we receive data, “Kukaitis told BNS.
According to him, the Bar Association requested from the Prosecutor’s Office at least the same amount of material that the Council of Judges received on the suspected judges, but did not receive it, so no decision was taken to restrict the activity of the lawyers.
In the event of a change in the legal status of lawyers, from suspects to defendants, their temporary removal will be considered at the next Council meeting and their final removal from the list of lawyers after the entry into force of the sentence.
“Then the person is unconditionally considered to have lost the status of impeccable reputation and would be removed from the list of lawyers,” said the vice president of the bar association.
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