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According to lrytas.lt, N. Venckienė packed his bags and left Lithuania without telling anyone.
Speaking to Delphi, his lawyer, Kazys Pėdnyčia, said that he could not confirm or deny such information because his client was not authorized to speak about it.
Darius Jakutis, who supported the state prosecution in the case, said he did not have such information, but mentioned that N. Venckienė is a free person and can travel abroad.
“According to the court decision, her preventive detention was revoked, she had the right to leave. And how much she wants to participate in the appeal, she will decide it herself here,” said D. Jakutis in Delfi.
Ms Venckienė was found guilty in the lower court of three crimes: failure to comply with the bailiff’s instructions, resisting an official, and causing physical pain. She was also accused of breach of sentence without sentence, but was acquitted of the expiration of the statute of limitations.
Neringa Venckienė
The court sentenced her to 1 year, 9 months and 6 days in prison. N. Venckienė was arrested in the United States while awaiting extradition, so the former judge served her sentence before the verdict was announced.
In addition, by court decision, he will have to pay for the extradition, which cost around 6.8 thousand. N. Venckienė will also have to pay 2.3 thousand euros to L. Stankūnaitė. property and 4 thousand. non-pecuniary damage, 3 thousand. Non-pecuniary damage, EUR 500 per police officer.
Both N. Venckienė, who is seeking full acquittal, and the prosecution, which is seeking a more severe punishment, appealed against this sentence. The appeal process will begin in early November and the person acquitted by law must attend.
“If she comes to court, there will be no problems,” the prosecutor said. “If she does not attend, the court will ask what to do next and we will talk.”
Prosecutor Darius Jakutis
During the process, Ms Venckienė repeatedly asked the court to leave the country for the Dutch capital, Amsterdam.
His request was motivated by the fact that his son, whose wife had not seen her for 3 years, currently lives there.
“The defendant N. Venckienė undertook, if allowed to leave, not to violate the law, not to interfere in the process, not to hide from the prosecutor and the court,” he said in the application.
However, during the process, the courts did not respond to these requests and ordered N. Venckienė to remain in Lithuania.
N. Venckienė became public after the events of 2009, when on 5 October in Kaunas, Judge Jonas Furmanavičius was shot on his way to work and L. Stankūnaitė’s sister, Violeta Naruševičienė, was killed near the house.
The police were suspicious of N. Venckienė’s brother, Brave Kedis, of these crimes. He accused J. Furmanavičius and later Andrius Ūsa of Kaunas of abusing his young daughter and L. Stankūnaitė’s, but later, after lengthy court trials, it was established that the accusations of pedophilia were fabricated.
D. Kedys, who was in hiding after the massacre, was found dead in April 2010 near the Kaunas lagoon. He died of choking on the contents of his stomach, according to police.
After this story, N. Venckienė founded the party “The Way of Courage” and was elected a member of the Seimas with several comrades. After all, he was not a member of parliament for a long time; After learning of the suspicions that threatened her, the former judge flew to the United States, where she was arrested in early 2018.
Lithuania requested extradition for 13 offenses, but the US courts that examined the extradition request agreed to extradite N. Venckienė for only 4 offenses.
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