Guardian angels also become thieves of personal data.

Klondikas information attracts criminals and ordinary curious people

How do you know who is visiting a neighbor, who owns the car the stranger or stranger is arriving at? Perhaps you want to consult the biography of your daughter’s friend, perhaps the child has managed to “win” more than one sentence, or perhaps you have formed a family in the past and have children.

These data cannot be obtained by a simple ordinary “mortal”. However, the country’s special services, including police officers, have access to databases that collect and store particularly confidential personal information. Therefore, sometimes there are cases of misfortune for this institution, where the “guardian angels” with protection, protection and assistance become thieves of personal data.

The cases in which the police abused the service at the request of someone to explore secret databases occurred a decade ago and even earlier. For example, officers from the Criminal Police Office have had to explain why computers at one of the Kaunas police stations were connected to the service systems and personal data of the country’s then president, Valdas Adamkus, and his wife Alma. It was later justified that this was done out of stupid curiosity, when the police disputed the age of both spouses …

There were also much more serious cases when the personal data stored in the information systems was collected by order of organized criminal gangs operating in Kaunas.

Kėdainiai policeman got stuck

Although there have been fewer and fewer recent cases of illegal use of nonpublic information by police officers, they still occur.

An investigator from the Kėdainiai Police Station was recently dismissed, charges of office abuse and collection of non-public data were made in the police information system.

Officials of the Kaunas County Chief Police Commissariat Immunity Board, who uncovered the actions of this female police officer, stated that she “complied with data from private individuals who collected data on the lives of private individuals from records of the Police Information System and passed them on to unauthorized people. “

The police officer suspected of abuse was removed from his post and given preventive detention, a written commitment not to leave.

“This is the first case this year of a possible leak of personal data. In 2018-2019, there were no such cases when police officers were prosecuted for illegal use of databases. Such cases are not common, but do occur. “Delfi Andrejus Rabij, head of the Kaunas County Chief Police Commissariat of Police, told the portal.

Speaking about the reasons why police officers commit crimes and collect data illegally, Rabij distinguished two categories.

“The first is a request from acquaintances, friends, and friends to receive information about third parties, which is then used in personal, household, or this data is used in business,” said the head of the County Police Immunity Board from Kaunas.

The second category is incomparably more dangerous. In these cases, police officers provide non-public information available to members of organized criminal groups, who then use the data obtained to commit crimes.

“Regarding the last case in Kaunas County, Kėdainiai, the information was not transmitted to criminal groups. It went to people who used it to manage their personal affairs in the interest of their business, ”said Rabij.

Responsibility for the data theft request is also threatened

In the pre-trial investigation initiated by the Kaunas County Police Immunity Board, allegations of abuse of power were made not only to the Kėdainiai Police Officer.

An acquaintance of the police officer, who asked him to search for information on people of concern, also has problems with the police. He was accused of illegally collecting information about a person’s private life.

“You need to realize that a request from a well-known police officer to search something in the databases goes beyond the limits of legality.

And the “pocket police” incurs criminal or administrative responsibility in doing so. I think citizens themselves often don’t go too deep into the consequences of requesting personal data, “said A. Rabij, head of the Kaunas County Police Immunity Board.

The databases used by the police store more than just details about relationship, property, vehicles, or workplaces. It also collects data on individuals’ convictions and penalties.

These data help form an opinion about a person’s lifestyle, which is why employers are particularly interested. This is understandable, because who will want to hire a person in a warehouse who has been convicted of robbery multiple or multiple times.

“They can ask the person to provide a conviction certificate and the penalties they have received. You can also contact the police if the law entitles you to receive this information. However, it is quite easy to collect such information if there are abusive officers among us in the police. And in the end, the whole system suffers, because that information is only for us, “Delfi A. Rabij, head of the Kaunas County Chief Police Commissioner Immunity Board, told the portal.

He mentioned that cases in which individuals petition the Immunity Board on suspicion of leaking private information are quite rare, but they do occur. Upon receiving said request, an inspection begins, clarifying who was interested in the person, if it was done on a legal basis.

By the way, it is quite easy to configure. Each police officer has his own username and password to log in to internal systems. Police servers also store data on who connected, when and what they were looking for.

Kaunas police officers also provided secret data to famous criminals.

Speaking of much more dangerous cases when officials who can receive non-public information assist criminal gang members, A. Rabij mentioned the Kaunas Road Police investigator discovered some time ago.

Egidijus Pašvenskas, an investigator with the Traffic Safety Criminal Investigation Division of the Kaunas Highway Police, was found to assist the Agurkiniai group with a group of criminals who had kidnapped tugs in foreign countries.

This, now a former police officer, has provided criminal data that was later used to falsify stolen documents and tow plates. When the gang case was turned over to court, the value of the stolen trucks was claimed to be 1 million. 449 thousand euros

Fifteen years ago, operatives of the so-called elite Kaunas police unit, the Organized Crime Investigation Service (ONTT), unmasked officer Jevgenijus Dziumanas, who not only provided information to criminals, but also befriended of some of them.

This high-ranking official, who worked at the Kaunas Žaliakalnis Police Station in a simple post office, unmasked an ONTT official investigating the ways in which then-Kaunas criminal leader Henrikas Daktaras received detailed information about the people they were interested in and the cars they used.

During the secret investigation, it became clear that a close friend of “Henytė”, then Algirdas Saveikis, who had been sentenced six times, had a friendly relationship with policeman J. Dziumans under the nickname “Algelis”. It was established that thanks to this police, the information about the owner of the car interested in H. Daktar had been transmitted to the criminal gang.

It was also clarified that J. Dziumanas, who had the nickname “Ženka”, became friends not only with a member of the “Daktarai” gang, but also with other Kaunas criminals: Saulius Velečka “Agurk” and his favorite Algimantas Ringaila , nicknamed “Čikis”.