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According to judicial representative Jolita Gudelienė, after the Police Department presented a letter refusing to organize the interrogation, it was not possible to do so on Friday, as planned, a way to question the victim will be sought.
Ramūnas Matonis, a representative from the Police Department, told BNS that due to the threat to L. Stankūnaitė’s safety and the threat of the coronavirus, it was not possible to physically bring her to the interview.
Matonis also claimed that “he offered at a distance, the court refused.” However, after the court denied this information to the police officer,
R.Matonis later clarified on Friday that there was no possibility of organizing the remote survey of L. Stankūnaitė.
“For security and certain logistical reasons, it was not possible to organize the survey remotely, neither physically nor remotely delivered,” he said.
He said he could not comment in detail on these circumstances. L. Stankūnaitė is protected by the state.
At the hearing, four witnesses were questioned: two specialists in children’s rights, an assistant bailiff Sonata Vaicekauskienė, who was recognized as a victim in the case, and Gintaras Černiauskas, L. Stankūnaitė’s defense attorney.
The court will continue to hear the case next week: Witness hearings are scheduled to continue on Monday and Thursday.
N. Venckienė was charged with non-execution of a court decision, resisting a police officer, obstruction by a bailiff, and L. Stankūnaitė face to face.
Due to differences between the Lithuanian and American legal systems, the following four of the 13 anticipated suspicions remained after the defendants’ transfer to Lithuania. N.Venckienė denies the allegations, calling them politically motivated.
N.Venckienė claims that she did not use violence during the events of May 2012, when, in execution of the court decision, officials took her young daughter from her family home and handed her over to her mother L. Stankūnaitė . According to N. Venckienė, violence was used against both her and L. Stankūnaitė’s daughter.
N.Venckienė was one of the most important participants of the so-called Garliava events.
Judge Jonas Furmanavičius, who went to work, was shot dead in Kaunas on October 5, 2009. On the same day, L. Stankūnaitė’s sister, Violeta Naruševičienė, was killed near the house. Prosecutors determined that the murders may have been committed by Drąsius Kedys, a brother of N. Venckienė.
D. Kedys accused V. Naruševičienė of allowing her and L. Stankūnaitė’s little daughter and her cousin, V. Naruševičienė’s little daughter, to be abused. J. Furmanavičius and Andrius Ūs were accused by a Kaunas resident of pedophilia. All the courts acquitted A. Ūsa.
The body of D. Kedis, who was in hiding after the massacre, was found in April 2010 near the Kaunas lagoon. Later, A. Ūsas was found dead. Police say they died without violence.
N.Venckienė took care of her granddaughter for a long time, did not carry out court decisions to hand her over to her mother L. Stankūnaitė. The girl was taken from her aunt’s house in Garliava after officials intervened.
In the pending case before the Regional Court of Panevėžys, four people were recognized as victims, they have filed a civil lawsuit for a total of 100 thousand. EUR: L. Stankūnaitė has filed a claim for 20 thousand euros. moral damage, her daughter – 50 thousand. EUR, police officer – 2 thousand. EUR, and the bailiff – almost 29 thousand. euro stock.
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