Kaunas resident on trial in Bugavičius murder case: Guardian threatened to pierce his eyes

While waiting for the sentence behind bars, another case

Ričardas Baika, a 37-year-old Kaunas resident of Dečius’ Agius “in a murder case.

According to the accusations, R. Baika aided Estonian hit men: Hans Erik Ehvert and Arle Grabbi. According to the case, he followed D. Bugavičius, collected data on his routes, provided weapons to the murderers and immediately after the murder helped him escape from Lithuania. However, the only culprit against R. Baikas is his fingerprint, which was found on the tracking equipment, which was installed after the murder of D. Bugavičius’s car.

As the culmination of the famous case drew near, mounting tensions over the imminent imposition of severe punishments hit Baika in its own way.

In May this year, he threatened to deal with an incredulous supervisor at a Kaunas detention center, where he was awaiting sentencing. Outraged, R. Baika threatened to pierce her eyes.

Due to the seriousness of the situation, to avoid a possible confrontation, R. Baika was transferred to another detention center, and due to the threat of serious injury to the carer, a pre-trial investigation was launched. Currently finished, the case has been examined in the Kaunas District Court.

Deprived of the right to long-term dating

An officer from the Kaunas interrogation isolator captured the ire of R. Baika, who was staying here, after a walk in the courtyard.

After noticing something suspicious about the three detainees in action, the caretaker decided to check that they did not have any prohibited items.

A USB stick was soon found on the ground, and it is prohibited for detainees awaiting trial in these media. Although another prisoner claimed responsibility for the memory, those responsible for the detention center decided that its real owner was R. Baika.

For violating the regime, possession of a prohibited article, he was sent to the disciplinary commission, which imposed a severe penalty on R. Baikai: for half a year he was deprived of the right to prolonged visits with the mother of his children.

This punishment did not frustrate Baika with a laugh. The actor accused of helping and inciting the murderers poured out his anger on the caretaker who caused him problems and thus “won” a criminal case.

Anger spilled in the isolator hall

The officer of the remand center, who accompanied R. Baikas to the meeting of the disciplinary commission, who testified in court, recalled the threat directed at a colleague from the lips of the detainee. An extremely important detail was heard in his testimony. It turns out that detainees can easily attack officers if they want to.

“The detainees walk down the hall with their hands clasped, we follow them. The detainees go alone to the disciplinary commission, there are senior officials waiting for them, we are waiting outside the door ”, declared the supervisor in court.

According to the employee of the preventive prison center, she accompanied R. Baika to the cabinet where the disciplinary commission met. As he left the hall, passing an incredulous supervisor, R. Baika broke the threats.

“I will pierce your eyes, you see too much,” the witness quoted R. Baika’s phrase.

If Baika was really going to pierce his eyes, the official said he couldn’t tell. She revealed an interesting circumstance: R. Baika is not incarcerated in the Kaunas remand center after this incident, but is brought here only on an episodic basis, when the case of the murder of D. Bugavičius is being examined in Court Kaunas Regional.

“I think (moved – ed.) Because of threats to a colleague, for security reasons,” guessed the witness, adding that she had no personal problems with Baika.

The 15-year-old woman who works at the Kaunas Pretrial Detention Center said she had not heard such threats during her work practice. It is true that there were threats against other officials.

Bad words are the daily routine of supervisors

Upon receiving threats to pierce his eyes, an employee of the remand center, who was recognized as a victim in the case, told the court that R. Baika had made a special effort to prevent these words from being heard by a high official.

“The defendant deliberately waited for the superior officer to enter the room and offered to say these words. I allowed myself a moment of weakness when I went to marry my other “client,” the supervisor said.

“It just came to our attention then. He got something out of the conspiracy theory from Russian channels,” said R. Baika, who confessed that he was angry with the supervisor and spoke uncensored words to him.

This posture of the accused outraged the caretaker who had received threats to pierce his eyes.

“She does not apologize or regret it. Since I have a philological education, I know uncensored words are different from threats. That is not why I studied for five years so I wouldn’t know.

Uncensored words are our daily routine. Already grown scar and you don’t react to them. However, when you hear threats, you react completely differently.

So R. Baika’s stories about conspiracy theory created, words taken out of context, sound strange. “We have nothing to do but develop conspiracy theories about R. Baika with our colleagues,” said a supervisor who did not believe this person and was threatened by him in court.

The damage suffered was estimated at 5,000. euros

The prosecutor who supported the prosecution in the case emphasized that the interrogator’s threats to beat him had in fact been understood as real. According to the prosecutor, he consulted a psychologist, took medication.

The state attorney noted that the guards have to go to the cells, communicate with detainees whose hands are not handcuffed, and accompany them in the hallways.

The supervisor, who received threats from R. Baika to pierce his eyes, evaluated the moral damage and the experiences of 5,000. euros.

During the hearing on the case, when R. Baika’s attorney, attorney Gediminas Bukauskas, began to think about the probable desire for profit, the supervisor was outraged.

“Is health and emotional state valued in money? What could be the desire for profit here? “Asked the employee of the detention center.

According to lawyer G. Bukauskas, the words spoken by R. Baika are a spontaneous emotion and should not be seen as a threat. Especially because after reviewing the recording of the surveillance cameras, which recorded the passage of the supervisor and R. Baika in the corridor, no aggressive actions were recorded.

“If an official were attacked or injured, there would be no dispute. And now it is a failed emotional expression. Nobody made this fact significant, R. Baika followed his own path and the victim, his,” said lawyer G. Bukauskas and assured that your client should be subject to administrative liability rather than criminal liability.

He apologized just for saying the last word

“R. Baika is charged with a misdemeanor. He did not admit his guilt, did not apologize to the victim. I had to say he had a fever, “said the prosecutor, proposing to the court R. Baika to be sentenced to 8 months in prison, postponing his execution for 1 year.

R. Baika, who is on trial in the D. Bugavičius case and accused of providing assistance to alleged Estonian hit men, could only apologize at the end of the judicial process and had the last word.

By erasing the position expressed by the lawyer, he attributed the blame to the emotional state that overwhelmed him when he learned that he was deprived of the right to prolonged visits with the children’s mother for half a year. To mitigate his situation, Baika denied that he intended to carry out his threats: to open his eyes to the supervisor of the detention center.

“Sorry, I had no intention of doing anything. Maybe i was excited nervous. Please justify me, “said R. Baika, speaking the last word.