The theme -made subject could not announce the sentences of South American women

Gave the exhausted compatriots

As already written, the pre-trial investigation, which became the basis of the case, was initiated by the Kaunas police in the autumn of 2023, after a statement by two Venezuelan citizens that they were forcibly kept in a dormitory of Savanorių Avenue to provide sexual services for money. Some of them were 23 and the other was 30 years old.

The authors of the statement stated and were forced to provide sexual services in Lithuania by fraud – they were seduced by promising a well -paid job at a bar or factory.

After the commencement of a pre-trial investigation into human trafficking, exploiting them for prostitution, on October 25, 2023, was detained, as stated, a 39-year-old Colombian citizen and a 37-year-old Venezuelan citizen. However, they were reluctant to admit to organizing a prostitution business in Lithuania. The man said he had come to Lithuania from Venezuela to Lithuania as a tourist. And the latter was more likely to admit that he himself provides prostitution services rather than organizing them.

Officials of the Organized Crime Investigation Board of the Kaunas County Police Headquarters, led by the prosecutor of the Kaunas District Prosecutor’s Office, who conducted the pre -trial investigation, found that this Venezuelan citizen was able to serve his clients and sell his compatriots with his detained man. And the latter is an Ecuadorian citizen who came to Lithuania with a fake Colombian citizen document.

Despite the fact that both denied allegations of organizing prostitution, they have been arrested for quite some time. The Ecuadorian citizen was held behind bars until the case was heard in court. However, like him, a Venezuelan citizen, accused of organizing and led by another person, was waiting for the court to be released with the citizen.

Yulida Maria Leon Sarmienta. Photo by Edgar Cickiewicz

The accomplices do not identify Lithuanians

Along with the aforementioned couple, who is under the accusation of up to six years in prison, the younger sister of Venezuelan citizen has been in court. However, she has already been accused of having income from another person’s prostitution or composition for what the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania provides for imprisonment of up to four years.

Law enforcement admitted that all those who sold South American women in Kaunas could not be identified, although the trio probably had accomplices Lithuanians. Advertisements on these prostitution services with their exotic women’s photos were placed on the Internet in Lithuanian. And the aforementioned privatized apartment in a dormitory -type apartment building on Savanorių Avenue, where Venezuelan citizens said they were considered forced. Like apartments in Klaipėda and Panevezys, where these women from South America were also provided.

It was established in Kaunas to be provided in two dormitory -type Savanorių Avenue apartment buildings in just a few houses. It is believed that it lasted about seven months. One hour of these services cost 100 euros, half an hour – half as much.

Arrived legally, stayed illegally

In addition to Venezuela, the citizens of Columbia, who had the status of witnesses in the present case, were also identified. Most of them said they thought that prostitution was not prohibited in Lithuania.

However, the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Lithuania provides for a fine of between 90 and 140 euros. And after recurring, the fine is already threatened with a fine of between € 140 and € 300.

It is claimed that some citizens of South America, who have provided prostitution services in Kaunas, are punished for this by administrative procedure.

The pre -trial investigation took time to explain how their compatriots who served their customers and their customers came to Lithuania. And, do they have criminal tails in their homeland.

It was found that the biography of the aforementioned Ecuador citizen is not completely clean. However, in the context that had led to the court in Lithuania, it has not been recorded anywhere.

It also turned out that the defendants had arrived in Lithuania with permits, which after the expiration period had already lived illegally.

Henry Daniel Acosta Romero. Photo by Edgar Cickiewicz

Acted differently than Lithuanians

The court, as well as the victims, said to the court that Venezuelan citizens who were waiting for his freedom in Kaunas, as well as the victims. The younger one was not even detained. Only documents were taken from it.

A handcuffed Ecuadorian citizen, who, in addition to profiting from another person’s prostitution, is also accused of having a fake document in the organization and leadership, brought to court for convoy officials, contrary to Lithuanians accused of such crimes, did not hide their face from the media. Like the younger sisters of Venezuelan citizenship.

They began to cover, only the lawyer of Ecuador citizen, appointed to him by the Lithuanian state, as well as the citizens of Venezueola, when asked by the photographer of Kauno. diena.lt, whether he received a permit for his defendant to take pictures.

He admitted guilt in court

It seems that after learning from the lawyers of the Lithuanian state, that when confessed, both the trial will be shorter and the sentence imposed will be reduced by a third, the accused who have entered the trial did so.

Their testimony behind a closed courtroom door, as prostitution cases are pending, although there were no victims in the present case, the elder from Venezuelan citizens, as well as prostitution services that had witnessed the status of witnesses in this case, and Colombian citizens. women.

However, to go to Lithuania and to « let the roots » there « to the elder from the sisters who entered the trial, the aforementioned Ecuadorian citizen, with whom they were then a couple. He came to Lithuania a few months later for his partner. And with a fake Colombian citizen’s passport, because it is easier for citizens of this country to enter Europe – it is easier than Ecuadorians.

By the way, his document, a fake, law enforcement who conducted the pre -trial investigation, learned from the sisters. Then, for help, both Colombia and Ecuador were sought, which also took time to the pre -trial investigation. And only after receiving a fake confirmation from there, did the Ecuador citizen admitted that the document he submitted was fake.

When given testimony in court, the accused did not tell the prostitution of another person about potential accomplices in Lithuania. For example, the junior of the sisters who worked only the order of the orders, claiming that he received one dollar for one « contract », speaking only Spanish, said he interacted with future customers – SMS blanks with a stair door code, photographed by the apartment, and so on.

The trio of defendants said he did not know that prostitution in Lithuania was prohibited.

Who wore what?

Having found that the defendants admit their guilt, the case has been adapted to an abbreviated examination of evidence, which led to without witnesses.

The prosecutor suggested that Ecuador’s citizen imprisonment for a year and a half. And a one -year prison sentence for his cohabitant, who has Venezuelan’s citizenship. These deadlines were associated with the time they both missed behind bars while arresting.

The younger of the convicted sisters, who was not arrested for a day, was offered a fine of € 1,700.

State lawyers who defended the defendants asked for even more lenient penalties. The defendants themselves also seconded them.

However, the trial judge Dainius Ročys could not announce his decision today, although, according to the portal kauna. diena.lt, he released an Ecuadorian citizen from Kaunas Prison a week ago, as the term of his arrest, which was repeatedly extended, did not request the prosecutor to extend. It didn’t seem to see that knowing what his sentence would be like to decide on the extension of the arrest of Ecuador citizen and the judge. However, according to Inga Ramanauskaitė, a spokeswoman for Kaunas District Court, although the unlawful presence of foreign citizens in Lithuania is not attributable to the court’s competence, the judge hearing the case, since he had already expired from Kaunas Prison in Lithuania.

It seems that it was believed that there is currently a sisters of Venezuela, who have been convicted with Ecuadora’s citizen, who have been in court, and for which this trial was still in Lithuania to be in Lithuania without any legal consequences. However, they came to the sentence today, although, according to the court spokeswoman, after the closing speeches, they said they would not. Today, they have already stated that they thought they would be returned to the documents taken in the case after the announcement. However, this will only be done to the verdict that they can appeal in 20 days when they are effective.

After finding such a tragicomic situation that the verdict was written but translator to the native Spanish and not ordered from it, attempts were made to solve this problem, offered by Venezuelan citizens translated from English, but categorically disagreed. Although they speak English, it seems that their skills to talk in this language certainly do not match the necessary knowledge to understand the verdict.

In such a deadlock, the only decision is to postpone the sentence in this case for a week. It is only now that it is unclear whether the Venezuelan citizens will reappear in court after a week, because according to his spokeswoman, the media struggled to take a picture of them to flee without turning back.