A hit man who has killed 14 people in his life is asking for judicial clemency

A change in sentence would make it work

Lithuania’s most famous serial killer, Valerijus Januškevičius, has joined the ranks of criminals sentenced to life imprisonment, who are petitioning the court for a commutation of their prison sentence.

V. Januškevičius, 64, submitted an application to the Kaunas Regional Court for the first time through the administration of the Pravieniškės Correctional Center.

The murderer hired for the court hearing was not brought in, he attended it remotely. Since 1998, the leader of a gang that has been involved in robberies and murders during a period of detention has admitted in court that he has no hope of being released alive.

„I have little chance of surviving until freedom. I have diabetes, it is an insidious disease, my father died from it. I’m planning for the near future, not 10 years, “said the serial killer.

V. Januškevičius, 64, said that exchanging the life sentence for a lighter prison sentence would allow him to work.

The murderer, who was hired by him, applied twice for a job in Lukiškės and Pravieniškės. According to V. Januškevičius, the representatives of the administration of the Pravieniškės prison told him that he could only get a job when “will change ”and will live in the“ zone ”. He is currently in custody with other criminals sentenced to life imprisonment. These people, who no longer have anything to lose, will be isolated from other prisoners.

“The daughter does not work, she has two disabled children. He has no money to come see me, and if I worked, I could send him money. My conscience does not allow me to take money from two disabled grandchildren. And now I have no money, I can’t even buy a TV. I can work, why do I have to beg? ”Said V. Januškevičius, who killed a total of 14 people during his lifetime.

The first murder was committed before reaching the age of majority

V. Januškevičius from Vilnius began his murderous career at the age of only 16. For robbing and killing a person, he was sentenced to a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

While behind bars, Januusevičius met several prisoners who later became the nucleus of a group of bandits. He was released at age 23.

V. Januškevičius, who acted in 1992-1998, is alleged to have committed extremely serious crimes: he carried out armed robberies, kidnapped people and demanded ransom, and finally participated in contract killings.

Probably the most common crime committed by V. Januškevičius was in May 1995 in Vilnius, when the banker Rimantas Grainis was blown up near the Government House. The explosive was mounted under the businessman’s car and exploded when he started driving. R. Grainys died within days of extremely serious injuries.

V. Januškevičius got caught in law enforcement in 1998 when he committed a double murder, shot a businessman sitting in a car, and his wife made a fatal mistake. The killer took the victim’s cell phone and called someone after inserting his SIM card. That was enough for forensic criminals to follow in the hired killer’s footsteps.

V. Januškevičius was charged with killing 13 people and was sentenced to seven times the highest penalty: life imprisonment.

J. Kriukov of Vilnius, who survived the attack, requested the commutation of the murderer

During the examination of V. Januškevičius’s request to commute the sentence, one of his victims appeared at the Kaunas Regional Court hearing: Jurijus Kriukovas, a representative of the Vilnius shadow world who survived the attack only by happy coincidence .

The assassin’s attempt to detonate it ended in a bomb dropped under a car and Kriukov survived.

However, J. Kriukov stated in court that he had neither a claim against the hired assassin before or now, nor has he filed a civil suit.

„According to me, he needs to change his sentence to be able to work, to compensate other victims, ”said the“ celebrity ”of the Vilnius shadow world.

However, not all the people whose lives have been ruined by V. Januškevičius, a murderer who asks for judicial pardon and wants to work, occupies that position.

Burovcov, the daughter of his murdered businessmen, wrote a letter to the court mentioning the shocking news that a serial killer who had killed both of his parents was seeking a commutation to commute his sentence.

The serial killer said that he himself decided to end his criminal career

„I would very much like to apologize to the daughter of the injured Buravtsov. I completely understand her because I lost my wife and my parents. I don’t need to explain what it means to lose a loved one, “he said during his lifetime. 14 a man who killed people.

He claimed that he had decided to end his “career” and turn himself in to the law enforcement officers who arrested him, but that he had not suspected of having committed so many particularly serious crimes.

„If he had been completely silent and eluded, there would have been neither the Kriukov case, nor the Grain case, nor the Buravtsov case.

Everyone in the prosecution was shocked when I said that I wanted to end my criminal career and I am ready to tell you all the resounding crimes. I lost contact with all my friends, so no one helps me, “said V. Januškevičius.

He tried to play down his role in the gang that killed people for money. V. Januškevičius said he was only “technical director ”and the gang was run by completely different people. He was apparently persuaded by the prosecutor to assume the role of leader, as the real leaders testified against the Vilnius Brigade and, as a result, became very useful witnesses.

This week it will become clear whether the Kaunas Regional Court will pardon and mitigate the punishment of the most famous murderer hired in the country.