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“Audrius P., without a legal basis, acquired, kept and used a real document of a natural person, therefore, his actions are qualified as a serious crime,” said Ieva Narbutaitė, judge of the District Court of the city of Vilnius.
The convict faced a much higher fine for using a foreign document, but the defendant pleaded guilty and regretted it, so the court closed the criminal process with a criminal order and reduced the fine by a third.
The court allowed the convicted person to pay the fine within one year.
When imposing the fine, the court noted that Audrius P. had confessed to having committed the crime, stated that he sincerely regrets, his responsibility is aggravated by the fact that he committed the crime while intoxicated and this influenced the commission of the crime. . The court also took into account the details of the case describing the defendant Audrius P., who had previously been convicted in a foreign state and had been administratively sanctioned.
“The court decides that the objectives of the punishment provided for in criminal law will be achieved by imposing on the accused a type of punishment provided for in the legal sanction and proposed by the prosecutor: a fine close to the minimum of this type of punishment for minor offenses” Judge I Narbutaitė.
Audrius P. used the Foreign Opportunity Passport on September 22. at night in Vilnius, when they tried to get to the Iki shopping center. The man was drunk at the time of the incident (later found to be intoxicated at 1.21 per thousand), a security guard had met him before, and the man was arrested and summoned by police officers.
A man convicted abroad, who was taken to the police station and spent almost a day in detention, pleaded fully guilty to the crime against which he was charged. He said that he had been drinking alcohol that day and had decided to go to the store just because he wanted to buy water.
“I walked home after a gathering of friends and got a little in the way because I had been drinking alcohol,” said Audrius P. – I saw a sheet of paper in the parking lot by the water of the store – I sent the found document as my own. But the security guard knew me, so he saw immediately that I had not presented my passport and they detained me. “
The man said he did not yet have a passport issued in his own name because he had only been vaccinated once.
“If he had been sober, he certainly wouldn’t have done it,” a Vilnius resident explained to police investigators during the interview.
The police also questioned the man in whose name the passport of opportunity had been issued, confirming that he had likely lost the document when he left the Iki store after shopping.
This is the third criminal case investigated in Vilnius for illegal use of the passport of opportunity. Earlier, a foreigner was convicted who showed the QR code of the passport of opportunity on the phone at the Maxima shopping center, but attracted the attention of the security guard due to his Lithuanian first and last name. The detained foreigner explained that he had his state passport on another phone, and the Lithuanian opportunity passport was photographed the day before, at the workplace in the builders’ carriage, by the foreman who left his passport on the desk.
During the investigation, the supervisor indicated that he had left his passport of opportunity on the table, he did not think that someone could take a photo of him and use it.
When the foreigner pleaded guilty to the crime, the court reduced the sentence by a third and imposed a final sentence of 4,800 euros.
And for the other man, the court sentenced him to 45 days in prison, postponing his sentence for 6 months and intensive supervision.
In Vilnius County since September 15. Ten pre-trial investigations into the illegal use of a foreigner’s passport have already been launched.
Delphi recalls that the falsification of a passport of opportunity or the use of a forged foreign passport is severely punished: whoever kidnapped or without legal basis acquired, kept, transported, sent, used or sold a stamp, seal, document or strict The surrender of accounts in the form of a natural or legal person will be punishable by a fine or with detention or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six years.
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