2024-05-30 23:39:33
The information portal lrytas.lt was knowledgeable about this by Tautvilė Merkevičiūtė, the assistant to the chairman of the Kaunas District Court docket for relations with the media and the general public.
Ok. Kavaliauskas and his henchmen are awaiting sentencing whereas they’re free: they’ve been given milder remand measures than arrests.
The Kaunas District Court docket had imposed a effective on Ok. Kavaliauskas firstly of Might – the latter appealed the choice, however didn’t get something.
A few of the witnesses within the case have already been interviewed. Firstly of June, the interviews of the remaining individuals within the course of will proceed.
The investigation of the case is difficult by the truth that the crushed mobsters apparently determined to observe the so-called “regulation of silence”: they don’t inform the main points of the assault, they ask to cancel the standing of victims granted to them.
For instance, one of many crushed folks, Tadas Petrošius, who belongs to the “Gurkiniai” gang, acknowledged that he misplaced consciousness for some time throughout the assault and doesn’t keep in mind something. Somewhat earlier, he requested to not contemplate him a sufferer, however the court docket rejected this request.
It’s believed that the opposite method of revenge could also be chosen towards the attackers as a substitute of the authorized one.
On August 25 of final 12 months, in the course of the day, in a restaurant positioned on Laisvės avenue, an assault was carried out that shocked the general public, harking back to the heyday of the mafia: 8 masked assailants, armed with knives, truncheons and metallic rods, attacked 4 males who had lunch.
It turned out that the attackers and many of the victims are well-known regulation enforcement officers who’re a part of the town’s organized crime world.
Along with T. Petrošias, Rytis Sadauskas, an in depth buddy of the top of the “Gurkinių” gang, Saulius Velečka-Agurkas, beforehand convicted of automobile theft, and Egidijus Smailys, the top of the “Smailių” gang, who was convicted 7 instances prior to now and was concerned in two homicide circumstances, had been crushed throughout the assault.
At present, seven folks from Kaunas who belong to the shadow world are on trial for the violence towards them: Lukas Shcherbinskas, beforehand convicted 11 instances, former European Ok-1 newbie bushido champion Juozas Minkevičius, Tadas Muchinskas, Rokas Sipavičius, Vitalijs Zakrževskis, Edgaras Rezaevs and Ok. Kavaliauskas. Most of them had been on trial for critical crimes.
Two extra prison figures suspected of the assault on Laisvė Alley, amongst whom might be its organizer, are nonetheless being sought.
It’s believed that the assault on Laisvė avenue was carried out in revenge towards R. Sadauskas for earlier disagreements amongst gang members.
In response to criminologists, the Kaunas gang wars could flare up much more – after the assaults within the cafe, a home within the Kaunas district was already set on fireplace, which can belong to an in depth relative of one of many individuals within the assault.
The actors of the prison world will most likely proceed to elucidate the connection themselves, and the regulation enforcement officers will declare that they haven’t any claims towards anybody.
2024-05-30 23:39:33