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Remigijus Daškevičius, known by the nickname Daškė, was killed by a sniper shot in the old town of the capital 19 years ago.
The crime has yet to be investigated, but law enforcement reported a breakthrough in the case on Thursday.
R.Dromantas and R.Užukauskas, better known in the criminal world by the nicknames Long and Ruble, were arrested. Along with them, accusations have been made against another man, but it is not yet clear who he is.
Prosecutors approached the court demanding that all suspects be detained for a maximum period of 3 months.
However, the court granted such request only with respect to R.Užukauskas. R.Dromantas was detained for a month. Another suspect was taken into custody without arrest.
The judge who made the decision ruled that both the Long and the Ruble could flee and hide from justice. The latter was detained for a longer period because there is evidence that he will obstruct the process and try to influence witnesses.
The lawyers defending the suspects tried to convince the court that the charges could not be brought against their clients because they were already prescribed by law. However, such arguments were not convincing.
Who are R.Dromantas and R.Užukauskas?
R.Dromantas, nicknamed Ilgas, and R.Užukauskas, nicknamed Ruble, have tried in recent years to stay away from the criminal world and have been in business.
However, they both once belonged to the Daškiniai group. And 19 years ago, when the murder of R. Daškevičius was being investigated, and later officials considered one of the main versions that R. Daškevičius was murdered because of disagreements with R. Romantas. The gang leaders allegedly did not share the huge money made from the clandestine trade in smuggled cigarettes in Kaliningrad.
Following the assassination of R. Daškevičius, R. Romantas took special precautions, as some of the murdered’s fellow leaders suspect him and prepare for a bloody revenge.
2004 Valdas Jakutis, the chairman of the board of the Italian International alcohol company, was previously shot at his home in April 2006, previously with R. Daškevičius and R. Dromantas, according to officials, who had been involved in the cigarette business of shadow and alcohol with criminal actors from Kaliningrad. His murder has also not been clarified so far.
Kaunas Police Photo / Robertas Užukauskas
The last time R.Dromantas and R.Užukauskas had dealings with the police was a decade ago, when an organized crime case had been pending in court for a long time, but officials were unable to prove or achieve that R.Dromantas and R.Užukauskas, considered one of the “spot” gang leaders, would be planted. Behind bars.
Members of the missing gang fell into the hands of law enforcement officers when they tried to pressure Linas Dzidolikas and Vladas Jovaišas from Kaunas, who were selling Polish food supplements. Kaunas residents suspected of organized crime were arrested on January 6, 2010.
It is claimed that Olimp supplement traders from Poland brought products for several thousand litas and had the ambition to soon become the official representatives of the Polish company in Lithuania.
Erikas Ovčarenko / 15 min photo / Kaunas residents R.Užukauskas-Rublis (pictured left) and R.Dromantas-Ilgas
According to the case, the man who called L. Dzidolikas and V. Jovaiša and introduced himself to Robert advised him not to enter the market and allegedly said that a businessman who had already tried to compete had been found poisoned.
According to the victims, R.Užukauskas made it clear that he was interested in the food supplement business and did not want competitors.
The men agreed to speak more seriously at the “Gan Bei” restaurant in Kaunas “Akropolis”.
The businessmen brought the Olympus digital voice recorder to the meeting and then handed over the recordings to the police. Soon the Ruble and Long were arrested.
For their part, L. Dzidolikas and V. Jovaiša indicated a profit of LTL 2.1 million as the amount of property potentially infringed; the entrepreneurs calculated that they would have earned at least the same in 5-7 years.
According to the defendants, there was no property extortion and the conversations with the food supplement sellers are just a discussion between two companies about how two companies distributing the same product will have to go out onto the Lithuanian market.
Who was R. Daškevičius?
15 minutes Remigijus Daškevičius, president of the Lithuanian Boxing Federation, leader of the Kaunas Daškiniai criminal group, nicknamed Daškė, fell almost two decades ago after the killer was shot.
He was shot with a single shot to the heart in 2001. on November 24, in Vilnius, Trakų street, just after leaving the “St.Valentino” restaurant.
The journalist Dailius Dargis writes in his book “The True Story of Doctors” that R. Daškevičius became famous in his youth for fights and robberies. When he returned from service in the Soviet Army, he assembled a group of former athletes. They are said not to smoke, drink, or use drugs.
The Daškiniai group in Kaunas competed fiercely with the criminals led by Henrikas Daktaras.
In the last decade of the last millennium, the furious Daškiniai was famous for his cruelty.
R. Daškevičius himself was first convicted in 1991, sentenced to seven years in prison for extortion, but escaped earlier and returned to Kaunas in 1994.
The group flourished when the 1996 H. Doctor was imprisoned, where he spent 5 years.
Then the “gloves” not only dedicated themselves to organized crime, theft, but also began to venture into legal and semi-legal businesses, smuggling cigarettes and alcohol, which brought them fabulous profits.
According to D. Dargis, R.Daškevičius sought to legalize himself in the last years of his life: he was elected president of the Lithuanian Boxing Federation and entered the international boxing organization.
D. Dargis writes that even before the murder, R. Daškevičius was subjected to two failed attempts. He was constantly protected by security guards, but not from a sniper shot.
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