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Mickey Balsam, a journalist for the United States Department of Justice and federal law enforcement, reported on Twitter. According to him, the man in prison in Los Angeles was still on November 26. He was diagnosed with coronavirus, three days later he was hospitalized, and for the last two weeks his vital functions have been maintained by an artificial air ventilator.
Dr. Sassounian, who lived in the United States, was to be transferred to Lithuania for prosecution in the near future, as the court granted the Attorney General’s request in March and allowed the suspect to be tried for forgery and fraud. It is true that the court indicated in its decision that it was concerned about the incarceration conditions in Lithuanian penitentiary institutions, therefore, before making a final decision, it offered to express its position on this issue to the United States Secretary of State. .
Lithuanian prosecutors requested the United States to extradite Dr. Sassouniano in 2014, and the California court accepted this request and began examining it in 2016. at the outset.
The extradition documents indicated that prosecutors wanted to prosecute a businessman who lives in the United States and runs a company for fraud, falsification of documents and violation of public order. The court allowed Dr. Sassounian to be tried only for fraud and forgery of documents, at which point he does not extradite US suspects for violations of public order.
According to Lithuanian prosecutors, in 2007 MD Sassounian attracted more than 120,000 people from the victims. AMERICAN DOLLAR. They pledged this amount of money, mortgaging their house and taking a loan from the bank, to the account of Relator’s Well Fargo Bank indicated by the businessman.
The foreigner, presenting himself as an influential investor, indicated to the Lithuanians that they would profitably invest this money in a valuable plot of land; He also promised that the company run by his daughter would also invest its stake: 152 thousand. AMERICAN DOLLAR.
When in 2007 in October, the Lithuanians transferred money, the alleged investor explained that the investments are really successful, the profit grows almost every day, they will earn a lot of money, because the plot of land in which they invested is really profitable: it was found that there was gold in it.
In 2010, the businessman managing BE Investment Group visited Lithuania and provided investors with documents related to the transaction. Much later, however, prosecutors discovered that the documents Sassouniano provided were false, since the companies whose documents he had submitted were still in 2004. They were liquidated and all the papers are forged.
In addition, it turned out that the daughter of the alleged businessman, who allegedly ran the company that had to invest the money in the land, was actually working as a teacher and had nothing to do with these transactions.
At the request of Lithuanian prosecutors, MD Sassounian was questioned at his home in California; the man explained that he had received no money and that the Lithuanians had created a story that they had invested money in the United States. True, after checking bank accounts, prosecutors found that more than 120 thousand. However, the dollars were transferred to Relator’s Well Fargo Bank account.
Lithuanian prosecutors also wanted to try MD Sassouniana for an incident at a Šiauliai nightclub, back in 2009. At the point of fun, he had a conflict with a person who was once hit in the face with a fist and slightly damaged his health . Furthermore, the victim told the authorities that the foreigner had threatened to kill him.
As the United States does not extradite persons suspected of violating public order, these charges in Lithuania had to be dropped. And now that the suspect is dead, prosecutors should stop the criminal case altogether, but that will only be done once evidence of the fact is available in the US.
By the way, the courts that heard the extradition case took into account not only the circumstances indicated at the court hearing by Dr. Sassouniano, but also by his lawyer on the appalling conditions of imprisonment in Lithuanian prisons. The US judges acknowledged that the situation was cause for concern, but neither that reason nor the suspect’s honorable age could stop the extradition process.
“There are many reasons to believe that Dr. Sassouniano’s detention conditions will deteriorate when he is detained in inhumane conditions in Lithuanian prisons, raising concerns about the transfer of an elderly and ill person to a country whose prisons do not meet the standards. humanitarian “, said the American judge. However, he said, this circumstance must be assessed by the Secretary of State, which signs the extradition documents.
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