Paleckis sentenced Russia to six years in prison for espionage



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Deimantas Bertauskas, a Vilnius businessman who pleaded guilty and gave testimony in the same criminal case, has been released from criminal responsibility, Vytautas Jončas, a court representative told BNS.

The Prosecutor’s Office proposed that A. Paleckis be sentenced to nine years in prison and D. Bertauskas, exempted from criminal responsibility.

The verdict is not final and can be appealed to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal.

According to the General Prosecutor’s Office, from February 2017 to October 2018, the defendants, acting in an organized group with a Russian intelligence officer and other unidentified Russian citizens during the preliminary investigation, one of whom was found guilty by the court of the case of January 13, Information of interest to Russian intelligence.



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