Together with them, the former leader of “Jedinstvo”, a 76-year-old Russian citizen living in Lithuania, Valerijus Ivanovas, will be tried, the prosecutor’s office announced on Monday.
This pre-trial investigation was started in August 2022 by the prosecutors of the Department of Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation of the General Prosecutor’s Office, after evaluating the available information, they started a pre-trial investigation into actions against Lithuania, organized and controlled it.
This complex investigation was carried out by the officers of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau in cooperation with the Department of State Security.
As reported by the General Prosecutor’s Office, the data collected during the pre-trial investigation allow us to reasonably state that the accused, E. Švenčionienė and K. Juraitis, members of the liquidated association “International Forum for Good Neighbourhood”, acting in a group of accomplices, helped Russia more than once in 2022 in Lithuania, Belarus and Russia and Belarus and their organizations to act against Lithuania.
“In this way, the national security interests of the Lithuanian state were threatened,” says the prosecutor’s office.
E. Švenčionienė is also accused of public approval of international crimes, crimes of the USSR, their denial or gross belittling.
According to the investigation, she, acting together with the accused V. Ivanov, participated in the program about the events of January 13 at the beginning of this year.
According to the prosecutor’s office, in the program broadcast on the video sharing channel, E. Švenčionienė and V. Ivanovas publicly denied and grossly belittled the fact of the 1991 aggression of the USSR against the Republic of Lithuania, recognized by legal decisions and legal acts of the Lithuanian courts.
Also, during the show, the defendants denied the very serious and serious crimes committed by the USSR against the people of Lithuania, insulting the memory and their relatives of those who died and were injured in the fight for the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Lithuania.
The Criminal Code provides for deprivation of liberty from two to seven years for assisting another state to act against the Republic of Lithuania.
This criminal case consists of 28 volumes of documents.
E.Švenčionienė and K.Juraitis, who were interviewed by BNS before the end of the case, denied their guilt regarding the charges.
In 2022, E. Švenčionienė and her comrades met with representatives of the Russian Chamber of Commerce in Moscow and held a press conference, raising doubts about the legality of the election of the current Lithuanian government, accusing it of causing economic damage and intimidating its citizens due to a possible Russian invasion.
Forum members have also visited Belarus, where they met with its authoritarian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenka. Lithuania and Western countries do not recognize him as the legally elected president of Belarus.
In the civil case in which the liquidation of the “International Good Neighbor Forum” was decided, the General Prosecutor’s Office announced that in July 2022, E. Švenčionienė, representing this association, participated in a press conference organized by the Russian state news agency “Rossija Segodnia” (“Russia Today”) and on the show “Solovjov Live”.
V. Ivanov’s permanent residence permit in Lithuania has been revoked.
According to the Migration Department, even if the decision to cancel V.Ivanov’s permit becomes valid before the end of the criminal proceedings, he would have to stay in Lithuania while it continues, and pretrial measures will be assigned to him.
However, after it ends and the decision becomes effective, you will have to leave.
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2024-07-23 04:52:10
