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After examining the case, the court found guilty Viktoras Vilkauskas (previously also the surnames of Kęstutis Vilkauskas and Viktoras Leonovas), Darius Bacevičius, Alfredas Grigutis and Ramintas Aleknavičienė. There are real custodial sentences for all of them.
The prisoners acted very ingenious and refined, but often cynical. The scammers mainly targeted single women, but the men were also misled, as well as damaging the business entity.
To win the favor of the victims, V. Vilkauskas prepared himself carefully. Before that, he was sentenced 7 times, and after serving his sentence, he left the prison only in 2015. However, only after leaving the correctional facility did he become active.
It was discovered that the victims were presented in various ways, but mostly as a solid businessman, former or current officer of special services or security structures, anti-terrorism, colonel, judge with 6 higher education, 7 languages, EU official. in charge of the supervision of the Baltic state, etc.
He has always emphasized that he will have acquaintances everywhere and will be able to handle any matter, especially if someone has them with the police, the prosecution or the courts.
It was also established that V. Vilkauskas had opened a company in Great Britain called Limited Terrorism Office, sewed uniforms with symbols similar to one of the special services of the Republic of Lithuania, and used it to introduce himself to victims. , was driving a car with beacons mounted on the grill. There have also been cases in which V. Vilkauskas has established very close relationships with the victims, but only to be able to deceive them later by acquiring their property.
V. Vilkauskas has been convicted of the commission of ten criminal offenses, has been sentenced to 14 years in royal prison, the execution of which is pending arrest.
Another defendant, Darius Bacevičius, a former police officer, also played different roles.
In one case, D. Bacevičius met a potential victim found by V. Vilkauskas who had legal problems as a Deputy Attorney General, who had to solve those problems. Certainly not for nothing. However, above all he pretended to be a bailiff who “sold” properties at low prices to clients brought by V. Vilkauskas, who wanted to acquire this property at auction as cheaply as possible, only for the price that was offered to them, and paid advances to V Vilkauskas and D. Bacevičius.
D. Bacevičius also had to impersonate the manager of the UAB CHENGWEI ZHENG, which allegedly maintains close ties with China, and requested an advance for the consultation, promising the affected company to receive an order for 221 thousand. in the amount of EUR.
D. Bacevičius has been convicted of the commission of three criminal offenses, has been sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in prison, part of which he is sent to serve immediately after the entry into force of the sentence, and after this part – the remaining part of the sentence is postponed 3 years.
Another person convicted in this case is Alfred Grigutis, who has been convicted 10 times before and is currently serving his sentence in a prison for civil servants. In this prison, he had previously met V. Vilkauskas, who had also served his sentence there.
In this case, A. Grrigutis played the role of a merchant who could receive a large quantity of cheap mobile phones seized by Customs. He, acting in a group of accomplices together with V. Vilkauskas, managed to deceive a victim who planned to profitably resell these products in Russia.
A. Grrigutis has been found guilty of committing this crime and has been sentenced to 2 years in prison.
The only woman who acted as co-executor in the group of accomplices is Raminta Aleknavičienė, in addition to fraud, she was also convicted of wasting company assets, embezzlement of company assets and keeping fraudulent accounts.
She herself actively participated in the fraud when less trusted victims wanted to give money to V. Vilkauskas and D. Bacevičius not in cash, but by bank transfer. To do this, she used the accounts of the currently operating UAB Baurela, of which she was the owner and director, and collected and shared the proceeds of crime with V. Vilkauskas. To hide all this, he also fraudulently managed Baurela’s accounting.
R. Aleknavičienė was found guilty of six crimes. She is sentenced to 4 years and 11 months in prison, part of which she is sent to serve as soon as the sentence takes effect, and once served, the remaining part of her sentence is suspended for 3 years.
The same judgment confirmed the civil claims of the victims and the civil plaintiffs, granting compensation for the material and moral damage suffered by the convicted persons, and ordering compensation for this damage to the property of the convicted persons, whose property rights were restricted during the trial. pretrial investigation.
The sentence, which consists of up to 146 pages, can be appealed to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal through the Kaunas Regional Court within 20 days.
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