2024-06-25 04:01:02
“I refuse to testify, please observe the testimony of my earlier interrogations throughout the pre-trial investigation,” wrote M. Danielius in a letter from jail to a journalist from Elta. He stated that the guilt in his legal case is predicated on the testimony of witnesses, VSD certificates, so he noticed no level in explaining something extra.
He additionally refused to reply the questions of the trial members, as a result of, in M.Danielaus’s opinion, they could be the similar as throughout the pre-trial investigation.
“I don’t admit my guilt,” M. Danielius writes in a letter to Elta.
The accused says he has the proper to specific his place, regardless of how closed the method. M.Danielaus’s case relating to attainable espionage for Belarus is being examined behind closed doorways, espionage-related circumstances are often examined in non-public hearings.
“In jail I voted for E. Vaitkai – he’s the most well-liked candidate in jail,” M. Danielius didn’t cover his views and favourite throughout the Lithuanian presidential elections in a letter to “Eltai”. The person is awaiting sentencing whereas underneath arrest in Vilnius jail.
He’s accused of amassing info of curiosity to the Belarusian regime for a yr
Final September, when submitting the case to the courtroom, the prosecutor’s workplace acknowledged that, in response to the investigation, the accused M. Danielius from 2022 January to 2023 In February, she carried out the duties of a citizen of Belarus cooperating with the intelligence group of this nation, collected and handed on info of curiosity to her. The Belarusian citizen in query is Ksenia Lebedeva, a presenter of Minsk-controlled media.
“We mentioned the publications, the KGB didn’t formulate the duties for me or Lebedeva”, says M. Danielius. He stated that he wished to indicate what the representatives of the Belarusian opposition organizations who got here to Lithuania actually are – they sought to embezzle funds meant for supporting the opposition.
In keeping with M.Danielaus, the questioning of the witnesses within the case has already been accomplished, Olga Karač, the pinnacle of the “Mūsų namai” group, who was questioned within the courtroom as a witness, acknowledged that she has identified Ok.Lebedev personally since 2016, however didn’t touch upon their communication intimately, stating that that he fears for his security and KGB revenge.
ELTA reminds that in 2023 in August, the Migration Division refused to grant asylum to an activist from Belarus, O. Karač, as a result of she was acknowledged as a risk to Lithuania’s nationwide safety. Nevertheless, in the identical determination, she was provided a one-year momentary residence allow on humanitarian grounds.
Since 2014 A girl with a residence allow in Lithuania in January 2022 determined to ask for political asylum when she felt that the Belarusian regime was making an attempt to make an try on her life.
In keeping with M. Danielius, the courtroom added to the case file the choice of prosecutor G. Tarasevičius to refuse to begin a pre-trial investigation relating to O. Karač’s connections with Russian intelligence. A while in the past, it was introduced that the VSD discovered that O. Karač cooperated with the Russian intelligence service. The VSD doc acknowledged that O. Karač visited Russian territory in 2015-2019 and met with Russian intelligence officers there. The consultant of the Belarusian opposition categorically rejected these statements of the VSD.
The conclusion of the Genocide and Resistance Investigation Middle of the Lithuanian Inhabitants relating to the KGB of the USSR in 1989 was hooked up to the file. of the order on the company community adopted in July, since it’s related in explaining the attainable connections of M. Danielius and Ok. Lebedeva with the KGB, the courtroom discovered that the talked about heart is competent to elucidate the functioning and software of this order in apply.
In keeping with M.Danielaus, the journalists who fled Belarus attributable to political motives have been questioned within the courtroom, the previous boss of Ok.Lebedeva testified that L.Lebedeva was beforehand convicted of fraud, so she couldn’t be a KGB agent or informant, despite the fact that she makes packages on political subjects.
“The KGB often doesn’t recruit or make use of convicted individuals,” the witness informed the courtroom, in response to M. Danielius.
Giedrius Tarasevičius, the prosecutor of the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Workplace, who helps the accusation within the case of M.Danielaus, knowledgeable the courtroom that the investigation in opposition to Ok.Lebedeva is constant, Ok.Lebedeva is acknowledged as a suspect in absentia, and a seek for her has been introduced by Interpol and Europol.
One witness was killed, a number of went again to Belarus
The Prosecutor’s Workplace claims that, underneath the guise of volunteer actions, M. Danielius communicated with organizations working in Lithuania, uniting the democratic opposition of the Belarusian regime, individuals who after 2020 August. after the Belarusian presidential elections, with a view to keep away from arrest, imprisonment or different authorized persecution, he moved to Lithuania.
In keeping with the case, the accused visited the premises of Belarusian opposition organizations, participated in occasions, allegedly collected and transmitted details about their actions, ongoing tasks, funding sources, individuals belonging to the organizations and their conferences.
Lithuanian citizen M.Danielius is accused of not solely amassing and probably passing on details about Belarusian opposition organizations working in Lithuania, but in addition concerning the regiment of Belarusian Konstantinas Kalinauskas in Ukraine.
in 2021 Viktoras Savičius, who left Belarus in 2022. served within the Konstantinas Kalinauskas regiment of the Worldwide Protection Legion of Ukraine, returned to Vilnius after the service. In keeping with the info of the case, M. Danielius, whereas finishing up the duty of Ok. Lebedeva, in 2022 held a gathering with the aforementioned citizen of Belarus in Vilnius in August, he satisfied the previous soldier that the US Embassy was keen on details about the regiment’s composition, armament, logistics and provide chains. After recording the dialog with V.Savičius, M.Danielius forwarded it to Ok.Lebedeva by way of Telegram.
The Vilnius District Courtroom listening to the case of M. Danielius was unable to interview V. Savičius – final October, 34-year-old V. Savičius died in an accident in Grigiškės, he was hit by a automobile.
“Savicius stated that the cash didn’t attain the regiment, his story was not disinformation, this was later proven by the purges within the military initiated by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy,” stated M. Danielius.
In keeping with the defendant, “two Belarusian oppositionists” knowledgeable the courtroom that they returned to dwell in Belarus, subsequently they don’t conform to testify in Lithuanian courts.
Within the courtroom – and concerning the conclusions of the Reporter’s Fee
In keeping with M. Danielius, the conclusion of the parliamentary investigation fee that examined the story of the State Safety Division (VSD) whistleblower and ignited sharp political debates was additionally touched upon in his legal case.
As M.Danielius writes to Elta, in Might, on the courtroom session, points relating to the connection of the conclusions of the Seimas rapporteur’s fee to his legal case have been determined.
“As a result of the VSD officers showing in my legal case and the VSD operations carried out are additionally talked about within the conclusions of the Reporter’s Fee”, says M. Danielius.
“Prosecutor Giedrius Tarasevičius informed the courtroom that he mainly agrees with the inclusion of a part of the conclusions of the Rapporteur’s fee, specifically the protocol of the interrogation of VSD deputy director R. Bridikis within the Rapporteur’s fee,” says M. Danielius.
In keeping with M. Danielius, the prosecutor famous that it was on the premise of the 2022-09-22 certificates of VSD deputy director R. Bridikis that he began a pre-trial investigation in opposition to him. R. Bridikis was included within the planning of the investigation, so the reasons of this particular person could also be related to the legal case of attainable espionage.
G.Tarasevičius didn’t touch upon the facets of the conclusions of the rapporteur’s fee to Eltai M.Danielaus, citing the non-publicity of the method.
ELTA reminds that on the finish of March, the Seimas fee that examined the historical past of VSD reporter Tomas Gailius confirmed the conclusion of the parliamentary investigation. After a number of months of research and the testimony of a dozen officers, it was established that the pinnacle of the Safety Service, D. Jauniškis, helped the then candidate Gitanas Nausėdas by amassing intelligence details about his surroundings. The members of the Seimas conclude that the VSD director’s materials concerning the candidate’s surroundings reached him by G. Nausėdas himself or an individual appearing on his behalf. It’s also indicated that the data collected within the division may have been disclosed to G. Nausėda himself.
The conclusions of the investigation additionally state that throughout the parliamentary investigation it turned clear that the VSD investigated attainable violations in financing the election marketing campaign of the then candidate G. Nausėda.
It was additionally came upon that G. Nausėda and members of his electoral workers in 2018-2019 maintained contacts with representatives of the Belarusian fertilizer enterprise, met with them, and after changing into the pinnacle of the nation, invited these individuals to the occasions held on the Presidency.
2024-06-25 04:01:02