2024-06-14 07:44:40
On Friday, the Panevėžys District Court docket introduced that it permits the accused Okay. Bartoševičius to go away Lithuania in the course of the summer time interval as requested by him.
Though the prosecutor and representatives of the victims objected to the defendant’s request, the courtroom indicated that pretrial measures can not restrict an individual’s freedom greater than needed.
“An individual who’s topic to preventive measures limiting his freedom should be given the chance to go away when courtroom hearings will not be held, if he fairly requests it. The explanation and journey route acknowledged by the defendant’s protection lawyer don’t intervene with the justice course of, subsequently there are not any causes to ban him from leaving Lithuania in the course of the specified interval”, the chairman of the panel of judges, decide Valdas Ciesiūnas, famous within the courtroom report.
The courtroom didn’t fulfill one other request made by the protection counsel – to interview extra witnesses, mentioning that the method of proof can’t be infinite and there should be sufficient proof to attract cheap conclusions.
The lawyer of the defendant, Oleg Šibkovas, instructed Elta that his consumer needs to go to Italy for a couple of month, he has not but purchased the tickets as a result of he’s ready for the courtroom’s permission.
“For a trip, a leisure journey,” O. Šibkov instructed Elta.
Okay. Bartošević is topic to 2 pre-trial detention measures – paperwork had been taken from him, and he has additionally signed a pledge to not depart his place of residence. The paperwork had been briefly returned to him whereas the elections had been held.
Through the listening to on Thursday, the videotapes of the interrogations of the victimized kids in the course of the pre-trial investigation started to be considered, the victims themselves don’t take part instantly within the courtroom course of, they’re represented by their mother and father and attorneys.
ELTA reminds that in 2023 In July, the pre-trial investigation in opposition to the previous MP Okay. Bartoševičius was accomplished, the case concerning potential sexual crimes in opposition to kids was transferred to the courtroom. Okay. Bartoševičius is accused of sexual abuse of youngsters (2 episodes), molestation of an individual beneath the age of 16 (4 episodes) and minor well being impairment of younger kids (4 episodes).
In response to the prosecutor’s workplace, there are 4 victims within the case who had been minors on the time of the crimes dedicated in opposition to them.
Okay. Bartoševičius, a member of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats faction within the Seimas on the time, introduced final 12 months, on January 23, that he was renouncing his mandate as a member of the Seimas attributable to private causes. Later that day, the prosecutor’s workplace introduced that an investigation had been opened in opposition to him for potential sexual crimes in opposition to minors.
In response to the prosecutor’s workplace, the out there information of the pre-trial investigation enable us to suspect that the legal acts had been dedicated whereas the suspect was serving as a member of the Seimas.
The information portal “Delfi” introduced that it’s suspected that Okay. Bartoševičius molested the pupils of the boys’ and youth choir “Ažuoliukas”.
2024-06-14 07:44:40