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After explaining to the court why he did not have a lawyer and indicating that he would have a lawyer at the next court hearing, defendant G. Ruseckas asked not to start the trial today, the Panevėžys Regional Court reported.
“Although the accused is a lawyer himself, he has the right to have his own lawyer, so in order not to violate this right and exercise it properly, the hearing cannot be held today, therefore it is postponed,” said Judge Sigitas Bagdonavičius.
Attorney Gintaras Ruseckas is charged with the effects of trade. The indictment states that in 2018 G. Ruseckas agreed to give 22 thousand. bribery of lawyer D. Zagreckas to influence judge of Criminal Cases Division of Lithuanian Court of Appeal K. Jucis. The judge was expected to overturn the Vilnius Regional Court verdict and acquit the people represented by lawyer G. Ruseckas.
In addition, G. Ruseckas is accused of in August agreed to give 1 thousand. bribery lawyer D. Zagreckas to influence the chairman of the Criminal Cases Division of the Klaipėda Regional Court. G. Ruseckas expected that the chairman of the division, in violation of the procedure established in the Klaipėda Regional Court, would assign the appeal of the convicted person represented by G. Ruseckas to a specific judge of the Klaipėda Regional Court.
This criminal case is independent of a large pre-trial investigation into possible large-scale corruption of judges, lawyers and others.
The next hearing is scheduled for November 23.
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