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The deeper in the forest, the more trees. The saying is very banal, but it is ideal to describe the most scandalous hunt of recent times.
The more the court delves into how a red deer was illegally shot in the Ukmergė district at night, the more the circumstances of the event will come to light: surprising, confusing and perhaps even showing signs of criminal offenses.
The main heroes of this story attended the meeting: the officials of the Panevėžys Wildlife Protection Inspectorate, who completed their work thoroughly and with principle.
Lead specialists Gytautas Stukas and Matas Sirgėdas undoubtedly became the main witnesses in this case.
Judge Dmitry Rancev, who was hearing the case, had to read an official report signed by both officials. An important nuance: what is emphasized in the document is not directly related to the crime alleged against three people (lawyer, police officer and hunting officer) in the present case: the transport of an illegally hunted beast. However, the testimony of the inspectors revealed another very significant aspect: the behavior of one of the detainees, the police officer Edvardas Balčiūnas, gave the obvious impression that the company was desperately trying to evade the inspection that led to this scandalous case.
The question is rhetorical: if the detainees did not hurt anything, they did not feel guilty about anything, why would one of the members of the company have had to weave such fur? By the way, a legal expert familiar with the case – file, with 15 minutes He shared the view that the conduct recorded by the inspectors may even smell like article 228 of the Penal Code (abuse of power).
Photo by Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min / Ukmergė District Police Station
As previously announced, due to this incident, the Vilnius County Police Chief Commissariat immediately took action – an official inspection. It evaluates not only the behavior of the detained officer E. Balčiūnas, but also the “collegiate” behavior of the local patrol team on duty in the Ukmergė district at the time: the police, the ongoing raid by conservationists. However, the detainees simply did not seem to have time to disappear from view and avoid inspection. Or the crew expected the inspection to end in an “agreement” with the wildlife inspectors.
Understand instantly
- Late at night during the raid in the Ukmergė district. Officials from the Panevėžys Wildlife Protection Inspection stopped the SUV, which was used by 4 people from different family farms, without complying with the requirements of the quarantine conditions. Two people hunted that night in the Ukmergė district. members of the hunting club “Lėnas”, the other two persons: Ukmergė district police officer E.Balčiūnas and lawyer L. Judickas living in Vilnius.
- A male red deer was killed in the trunk of the car with 2 shots. Examination of the hunting sheet revealed that it contained no data on the hunted beast, and contact with the club president revealed that the limit per hunting area per unit had already been exhausted in early December and all club members had been informed.
- Hunting Rules violations alone have resulted in two separate cases: one against gun hunter G. Aniūnas and the other against three other people in the SUV where the prey was transported.
Police officer E.Balčiūnas spent the night in the forest outside of office hours, but, as police chiefs and representatives themselves like to say, the officer is a 24-hour-a-day officer, for whom certain duties and standards of conduct apply not only during formal work. hours. If there are indications of abuse or other illegal activity, the Ukmergė court, which will render the judgment, has the right to issue an additional judgment, in which it can compel the prosecution to investigate and assess the circumstances.
So specifically reward – both and so, he was not offered, but tried to explain some of his acquaintances, said he could do some influence.
Let’s go back to the official certificate of the Panevėžys nature inspectors, in which the circumstances were confirmed by these officials in court, after telling everything in more detail and in their own words, having previously taken an oath to tell only the truth during the audience.
“We asked for documents. It turned out that it was Edvardas Balčiūnas. Constantly, he insisted, he asks for an agreement because he is an official. He did not offer a reward for it, but said that he had many acquaintances,” the judge read. The Panev silvestrežys wildlife protection inspectors they assessed a police officer’s speeches as pressure, perhaps even a threat, so they were no longer in debt: they warned that they could apply to the Police Immunity Service.
“Can you remember a little detail? How he asked to agree with what he said ”, the judge formulated the task for the witness V. Stukas.
“He was the first to get out of the car. Only then did we learn that he, Balčiūnas, was an official. He looked at the two of us with a colleague and says: “Oh, you’re older, let’s talk!”
I don’t know what he meant, if he was older or his position. And that was the conversation that made me suspicious. What should be discussed here and what should be discussed here? ”The inspector testified in court.
V. Stukas said that he did not pay much attention to this person’s innuendo: he and his colleague continued to clarify the circumstances and recorded the necessary facts. At that time, E.Balčiūnas, according to V. Stukas, had come over and over again with the same song: “Maybe not write … We are officials … We still know everything here …” On several occasions he had come to speak to us, orally, in all the senses that he tried to influence so that we did not formalize that event. He didn’t offer such a reward, both of them and so on, but he tried to explain about his acquaintances, he said he could do some influencing. “
“And he asked Mr. Balčiūnas, what does he know?”, Clarified the owner of the process, slowly writing the words.
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