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A case in which the famous swindler Viktoras Vilkauskas has unusual victim status is currently being considered in the Kaunas District Court, and is currently being tried for his affairs in another court. One of the victims in the latter case is illegally accused; together with the representatives of the Kaunas gang, he tried to get money from him.
An eloquent company
Along with three “kids” from Kaunas, Danutė Fedotova is accused of self-control, a former criminal intelligence officer who today has a café in the neighborhood of the Department of State Security, where his former colleagues, police veterans, like to choose.
Along with this former official, Mindaugas, the son of Algirdas Zemaitis, nicknamed Kukas, a representative of the Kaunas gangs killed a decade ago during a domestic conflict, is also being tried. They take him to the hearings of this case of the Marijampolė Correctional Institution, where he is serving the sentence imposed at the end of 2019 for another crime.
Kukiukas’ less famous friends: Edgaras Jurkynas and Giedrius Matulevičius await the court verdict in this case while they are at large. Like D.Fedotov, according to the indictment, which reimbursed these accomplices for the kidnapping of V. Vilkauskas and the organized execution for him in the amount of 200 euros and a pack of beer, they were promised in writing that they would not leave. .
The shadow of a famous case.
On August 24, 2018, V. Vilkauskas, who had already been convicted seven times and cheated on many wealthy women, was forcibly planted in the kidnappers’ car in the Savas shopping center parking lot and taken to the Kleboniškis forest. According to the indictment, along with E. Jurkynas and G. Matulevičius, D.Fedotova also participated in this crime, seeking to recover 40 thousand from V. Vilkauskas. debt in euros.
Kauno diena wrote this week that there was also a robbery of D. Fedotova in the 47-year-old V. Vilkauskas case pending before the Kaunas Regional Court, during which he lost 29 thousand. euros, episode. According to D.Fedotova, this crime was organized by V. Vilkauskas, who offered him to buy mobile phones cheaper than the market price and sent his armed accomplice, another famous Lithuanian swindler Alfredas Grigutis.
After this event, D. Fedotova sought help even from the then Chairman of the Seimas National Defense and Security Committee, Vytautas Bakas.
D. Fedotova
From the forest – to the well
After taking V. Vilkauskas, who was kidnapped a year after this robbery, to the Kleboniškis forest, D. Fedotova’s accomplices kicked him and hit him with the fists and the forehead.
Demanding to return D.Fedotovai 40 thousand. The victim was also threatened with a firearm.
Demanding to return D.Fedotovai 40 thousand. The victim was also threatened with a firearm.
Later, after deducting V. Vilkauskas’ “Giorgio Armani” bag, who also left his mobile phone and air pistol, which cost a lot, and took his luxury watch from the kidnapper’s hand, they took him to a garage in an Icelandic highway, to a carpenter familiar with the kidnappers. When he was silent and saw nothing in July, V. Vilkauskas was lowered into a well installed in the garage and remained there for some time.
After that, he was taken to the center of Kaunas – Maironio St., where M. Zemaitis also joined the kidnappers.
The enigmatic destiny of the car
After deciding that until V. Vilkauskas collected the required amount of money, his Volkswagen Phaeton car would be confiscated, he was also driven to a pawn shop to evaluate this vehicle. However, the consultant, upon learning that this car is registered in the name of Šiaulių bankas, refused to provide the service.
V. Vilkauskas was then told to call acquaintances and ask them for money. However, only one woman gave 170 euros to G. Matulevičius, after which he returns to the idea of V. Vilkauskas’ car, which was priced at 17,000 at the indictment. confiscation. He was still standing in the parking lot of the Savas shopping center, from which V. Vilkauskas was kidnapped.
Later, this car was found crashed in the aforementioned garage on the Icelandic highway, where V. Vilkauskas had previously been stored. The most realistic version is that this Volkswagen Phaeton was destroyed in a mysterious traffic accident.
Guilt is not admitted
None of the four self-imposed defendants admit their guilt. During the pre-trial investigation, D. Fedotova refused to testify at all.
According to the law enforcement officers who prepared the case for the court, the accusations against D.Fedotova and his accomplices are based not only on the testimonies of V. Vilkauskas, but also on the records of telephone conversations. At that time, the police overheard the phone conversations of M. Zemaitis, who is associated with Agurkiniai.
V. Vilkauskas, like M.Žemaitis, brought to the hearings of this case with wives, has already presented evidence. And he asked him not to let him participate any more in this trial. However, his request was rejected.
V. Vilkauskas has not filed any claim against the accused. And he only reported the incident to the police after a while. Initially, a pretrial investigation into extortion was initiated. But later, when it became clear that what had happened could have been related to the commercial relationship between the victim and D. Fedotova, the investigation was reclassified as self-control, using mental or physical coercion. This crime is punishable by arrest or imprisonment for up to five years.
Pressure judges
The first meeting of this case after quarantine took place this week.
After seeing the media lenses, V. Vilkauskas, escorted to the convoy, hid his face more than the accused.
Because litigants barely fit in the courtroom, the media had a chance to monitor what was happening there remotely.
After meeting to hear the case after the break, it was debated for about an hour whether to connect to the case previous media publications on V. Vilkauskas’ issues presented by the defendant’s attorneys and some of the material from his case that is being currently considering at the Kaunas Regional Court.
The defendants’ attorneys argued that this must prove that the victim’s testimony cannot be believed. V. Vilkauskas’ special abilities to psychologically manipulate women were also mentioned. However, the Kaunas District Court judge examining the Vaiva Nevardauskienė case was unwilling to succumb to pressure from the accused lawyers, satisfying only part of their requests.
Witnesses change the tone
Later, a woman who was the only one to lend money to the kidnapped V. Vilkauskas was interviewed. He has the status of victim, because the loan of 170 euros has not yet been recovered.
This victim said that she did not know what V. Vilkauskas really was at the time and that she would soon be on the victim list, because she had just started a business relationship with V. Vilkauskas. And that day after the call, he came home with a bloody escort. But he said everything was fine for him. And she waited until she brought the cash withdrawn from the ATM, which she handed over to the stranger who escorted her. V. Vilkauskas only told him that he ordered everything he saw only later. However, he did not want to reveal more details.
Following this, the victim and the owner of the garage on the Icelandic highway were interviewed. In court, he had already recounted how the convicts who had brought V. Vilkauskas operated his garage at the time, in other words, that during the pre-trial investigation. Now he was inclined to say that they only asked, they did not tell him, as he had said before, that they did not see or hear anything from him.
The defendants said they would testify only after questioning all witnesses. And there are many more of these.
Photo by Vilmantas Raupelis.
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