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The President of the Kaunas Regional Court, Nerijus Meilutis, examined a large-scale and resounding criminal case in which 13 natural persons and one legal entity were recognized as victims due to the significant harm caused to them by the fraud. The crimes were committed in 2016-2018. period.
The court announces that after examining the case, the court found guilty Viktoras Vilkauskas (who also had the surnames Kęstutis Vilkauskas and Viktoras Leonovas), Darius Bacevičius, Alfredas Grigutis and Ramintas Aleknavičienė. There are real custodial sentences for all of them.
The prisoners acted very ingenious and refined, but often cynical. The scammers mainly targeted single women, but the men were also misled, as well as damaging the business entity.
To win the favor of the victims, V. Vilkauskas prepared himself carefully. Before that, he was sentenced 7 times, and after serving his sentence, he left the prison only in 2015. However, only after leaving the correctional facility did he become active.
It was discovered that the victims were presented in various ways, but mostly as a solid businessman, former or current officer of special services or security structures, anti-terrorism, colonel, judge with 6 higher education, 7 languages, EU official. in charge of the supervision of the Baltic state, etc. However, he has always emphasized that he will have acquaintances everywhere and will be able to handle any matter, especially if someone has them with law enforcement, the prosecution or the courts.
It was also discovered that he had opened a company in Great Britain called Limited Terrorism Office, sewed uniforms with symbols similar to one of the special services of the Republic of Lithuania, and used it to introduce himself to victims, drove a car with grid beacons.
Cases have also been identified where V. Vilkauskas has established very close relationships with the victims, but only to be able to deceive them later by acquiring their property. V. Vilkauskas has been found guilty of the commission of ten criminal offenses, has been sentenced to 14 years in royal prison, the execution of which is pending arrest.
Another defendant, Darius Bacevičius, a former police officer, also played different roles. In one case, D. Bacevičius was presented as a potential victim with legal problems encountered by V. Vilkauskas as Deputy Attorney General, who had to solve those problems. Certainly not for nothing. However, most of the time he pretended to be a bailiff who “sold” real estate at a low price to clients brought by V. Vilkauskas, who wanted to buy this property at auction as cheaply as possible, only for the price that was offered to them, and V. Vilkauskas and D. Bacevičius paid advances. Mr. Bacevičius also had to impersonate UAB manager Chengwei Zheng, who allegedly had close ties to China, requesting an advance for the consultation and promising the affected company an order of 221,000 euros. D. Bacevičius was found guilty of the commission of three crimes, he was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in prison, part of which he is sent to serve immediately after the entry into force of the sentence, and after this part, the Execution of the remaining part is suspended for 3 years.
Another person convicted in this case is Alfred Grigutis, who has been convicted 10 times before and is currently serving his sentence in a prison for civil servants. In this prison, he had previously met V. Vilkauskas, who had also served his sentence there. In that case, Mr. Grigutis played the role of a merchant who could obtain a batch of cheap mobile phones seized by Customs. While working in a group of accomplices together with V. Vilkauskas, he managed to do that and deceive a victim who was thinking of reselling these products profitably in Russia. A. Grigutis was found guilty of committing this crime and sentenced to 2 years in prison.
The only woman who acted as co-executor in the group of accomplices is Raminta Aleknavičienė, in addition to fraud, she was also convicted of wasting company assets, embezzlement of company assets and keeping fraudulent accounts. She herself actively participated in the fraud when the less reliable victims wanted to give money to V. Vilkauskas and D. Bacevičius not in cash but by bank transfer for the goods, real estate or services sold. To do this, she used the accounts of the currently operating UAB Baurela, of which she was the owner and director, and collected and shared the proceeds of crime with V. Vilkauskas. To hide all this, he also fraudulently handled the accounting. from the UAB Baurela. R. Aleknavičienė was found guilty of six crimes. She is sentenced to 4 years and 11 months in prison, part of which she is sent to serve as soon as the sentence takes effect, and once served, the remaining part of her sentence is suspended for 3 years.
The same judgment confirmed the civil claims of the victims and the civil plaintiffs, granting compensation for the material and moral damage suffered by the convicted persons, and ordering compensation for this damage to the property of the convicted persons, whose property rights were restricted during the trial. pretrial investigation.
The sentence, which consists of up to 146 pages, can be appealed to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal through the Kaunas Regional Court within 20 days.
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