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The court’s representative, Gintarė Vosyliūtė, informed BNS that the prosecutor had requested a three-month detention for all suspects, but that the stricter arrest warrant for a shorter period had been imposed on them.
Ričardas Birvinskas, head of the Druskininkai firewall of the SBGS Varėna team, and Kęstutis Šukis, head of the Pretrial Investigation Division of the Varėna team, were detained for a month, and Edgaras Garbenčius, chief investigator of the Criminal Intelligence Division of this team , for seven days.
Ričardas Čas de Druskininkai was arrested for ten days on suspicion of helping to organize smuggling.
The first portal delfi.lt to report on the arrested border guards stated that R.Časas had been working on operational intelligence at the SBGS Lazdijai team until 2011.
According to the portal, the Druskininkai firewall led by R. Birvinskas was voted the best border firewall in Lithuania last year, and E. Garbenčius has been repeatedly chosen as the best operative of the year and awarded for its achievements, winning the “Clock of the Year “nominations.
Three border guards and their accomplice, the SBGS, said on Wednesday they had been detained.
According to the Service, border guards from the SBGS Immunity Board detained three agents from the Varėna Border Team in Druskininkai and Lazdijai during the pre-trial investigation into smuggling from Belarus, which began last year.
The officials’ actions also led to an official inspection.
The pre-trial investigation is controlled by the Prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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