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The prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office drew up an indictment and referred the criminal case in which R. Zamolskis, a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, is accused of committing very serious crimes and grave to the Regional Court Panevėžys.
In this criminal case, he was charged with the crimes of qualified homicide of two people, attempted murder of 14 people, illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives.
The defendant R. Zamolski is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence in the Russian Federation for crimes committed in that country. 2001 In 1945 an international search for R. Zamolski was announced. For a long time, he was one of the most wanted criminals, the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement released Wednesday.
It should be noted that back in 2003. Zamolski was sentenced to another identity sentence of three years in prison by the Kirovsk District Court of Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation, but the sentence was suspended. In 2014, he was arrested again in the Russian Federation.
On the morning of February 17, a short press conference was held in front of the General Prosecutor’s Office in the capital, where Tomas Uldukis, Prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office, provided a comment. more detailed on this case. .
The prosecutor expressed the hope that R. Zamolskis will not be tried in absentia and that a remote hearing is possible. However, judging from the experience of Lithuanian officials, this requires a difficult condition to implement: Russian law enforcement officials must create legal and technical possibilities for this.
At the same time, T. Uldukis emphasized that the organization of the process is the prerogative of the court itself.
“This international cooperation with the Russian authorities has been carried out since 2014, when the person was detained and arrested there. It should be noted that international cooperation takes a long time, it is necessary to pay attention to the important circumstances of which said person has previously been acquitted. through the courts, ”BNS quotes T. Uldukis.
The prosecutor noted that the prosecutor’s office had previously received the consent of R. Zamolski to be transferred to Lithuania to continue carrying out his sentence, but the Russian courts refused to do so.
The arrest of Romas Zamolskis, now 51, nicknamed Zamo, made breathing easier for both Lithuanian and Russian police forces. The Kaunas police had been announcing their search since 2001. R. Zamolski has always been famous as a criminal who is able to mask his appearance especially well. 15 minutes In 2014 he recounted a bloody criminal biography of Zamo.
2001 In July, in Kaunas, at the company’s premises, R. Zamolskis killed two men with illegally stored weapons.
Pre-trial investigation data suggests that in April 2001 R. Zamolskis committed theft of high-value properties and invaded the lives of collectors from the then Lithuanian Agricultural Bank for selfish incentives. One picker was seriously injured during the attack, and the other two pickers on duty were protected from gunfire by armored vehicle glass.
R. Zamolskis is also charged with assaulting police officers. 2001 June During the shooting in the center of Vilnius, two police officers performing official duties were injured.
According to data from the criminal case, in 2001 In July, in Kaunas, at the premises of a company, R. Zamolskis killed two men with illegally stored weapons.
2001 In September, R. Zamolskis, a deliberate suspect, attempted to kill two police officers in Kaunas with his accomplices.
On the night of October 1 of the same year, threatening to kill the guard with firearms, R. Zamolskis and his accomplice robbed one of the Kaunas kindergartens, embezzling properties for more than 800 euros.
A week later, on 8 October, R. Zamolskis, with an accomplice, is believed to have assaulted the lives of 7 police officers who had carried out official duties in Panevėžys in a manner dangerous to society in order to avoid arrest.
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