VASARIO 14, 2019 ~ REDAKCIJA

 

 

JAV Kongreso narys Chris Smith (New Jersey valstija), nesirengia nuleisti rankų – praeitą savaitę (vasario 7 d.) naujajam demokratu vadovaujamam Kongresui pristatė jo parengtą privatų įstatymą, su šiek tiek atnaujinta informacija, Neringai Venckienei apginti

https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr1107/BILLS-116hr1107ih.pdf.

 

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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1107 

For the relief of Judge Neringa Venckiene, who the Government of Lithuania seeks on charges related to her pursuit of justice against Lithuanian public officials accused of sexually molesting her young niece. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 7, 2019 

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

For the relief of Judge Neringa Venckiene, who the Government of Lithuania seeks on charges related to her pursuit of justice against Lithuanian public officials accused of sexually molesting her young niece. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Give Judge Venckiene Her Day in Court Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 

1 (1) Judge Neringa Venckiene fled to the United 2 States in 2013 and requested political asylum after  3 a 5-year battle in Lithuania to secure justice for her 4 4-year-old niece, Deimante Kedyte, who reported that she was being sexually molested by Lithuanian 6 government officials while in her mother’s care. 

7 (2) Deimante Kedyte’s claims of sexual molestation were evaluated by court-ordered psychologists and psychiatrists and deemed to be credible. 

10 (3) Deimante Kedyte accused of sexual molestation her mother and 2 associates of her mother, an assistant to the Speaker of the Parliament and a sitting judge. 

14 (4) Judge Venckiene and Deimante Kedyte’s father petitioned law enforcement and the courts for full investigation of Deimante’s claims against the accused individuals, but believed the ensuing investigation to be negligent. 

19 (5) Lithuania’s parliament (Legal and Judiciary Committees) issued a report in 2010 that  deemed the investigation into Deimante Kedyte’s  sexual molestation accusations to be negligent and  found that the negligence had compromised the case  against the public officials. 

1 (6) The prosecutors in the case were fired because, according to the court, their negligence in the investigation and overt coordination with one of the suspects resulted in possible lost evidence and created ‘‘circumstances for the suspects to avoid criminal liability’’. 

7 (7) The Child’s Rights Ombudsman was fired. 

8 (8) The then Attorney General of Lithaunia, Algimantas Valantinas, as well as multiple prosecutors, were forced to resign. 

11 (9) After Deimante Kedyte’s father went missing in 2009, Judge Venckiene was awarded guardianship of Deimante. 

14 (10) Deimante Kedyte’s mother was never in dicted for complicity in the sexual molestation despite a Vilnius District Court Ruling in October 2009 that there was enough evidence to indict her. 

18 (11) In December 2011, Judge Venckiene was 19 ordered to give Deimante Kedyte, then 7 years old,  back to her mother, but Deimante refused to return   to her mother, indicating fear of sexual molestation. 

22 (12) Hundreds of Lithuanians kept vigil outside Judge Venckiene’s house to prevent the Lithuanian Government from removing Deimante Kedyte. 

1 (13) In May 2012, the Lithuanian Government sent more than 200 police officers to take Deimante  Kedyte from Judge Venckiene by force. 

4 (14) Deimante Kedyte clung to Judge  Venckiene, was ripped from her, was carried away shrieking, and has completely disappeared from public view for the last 61/2 years. 

8 (15) The Lithuanian Government’s action resulted in protests against the Lithuanian Government in Lithuania and at numerous Lithuanian embassies around the world, as well as in the United  States when the Lithuanian President attended the NATO summit in Chicago in May 2012. 

14 (16) Judge Venckiene published a book entitled  ‘‘Way of Courage’’ in 2012 about Deimante  Kedyte’s ordeal and Lithuania’s failure to properly investigate and prosecute the case against the government officials. 

19 (17) ‘‘Way of Courage’’ became the name of a new, anti-corruption, anti-pedophilia political party in Lithuania, which elected Judge Venckiene to  Lithuania’s parliament in 2012. 

23 (18) Judge Venckiene sought political asylum in the United States in 2013 after she received threats  and experienced what she believed was an attempt on her life following a political rally, and after the 

2 Lithuanian Government moved to lift Judge Venckiene’s parliamentary immunity. 

4 (19) The Lithuanian Government has systematically prosecuted for ‘‘false statements’’ and other crimes the journalists, a medical professional,  Deimante Kedyte’s grandparents, Judge Venckiene’s neighbor, other members of her new political party, people who attended rallies on her behalf, and many others who came forward with evidence or support of  Deimante Kedyte’s claims of sexual molestation or  who opposed the violent removal of Deimante from Judge Venckiene. 

14 (20) Lithuania has leveled more than 35 charges against Judge Venckiene, including charges for filing petitions on behalf of Deimante Kedyte with Lithuania’s courts and the Child’s Rights Ombudsman, making statements critical of the investigation to journalists, describing in her book the  sexual molestation case against and naming the public officials, involvement in ‘‘unauthorized protests’’, 

22 ‘‘humiliating the court’’, desecrating the national anthem, conducting her own investigation into the  case, failing to turn Deimante over to the accused mother, bruising an officer, and kicking at  Sep 11 2014 00:08

 

1 Deimante’s accused mother when the accused mother tried to remove Deimante. 

3 (21) The extradition treaty signed by the  United States and the Republic of Lithuania on October 23, 2001, does not permit for Judge Venckiene to offer counter-evidence in United States court to any of Lithuania’s charges against her or to make the case for Lithuania’s political motivation. 

9 (22) A United States Magistrate Judge in April 2018 approved extradition for charges that Judge Venckiene hindered the activities of a bailiff, failed  to comply with a court’s decision not associated with a penalty, caused physical pain, and resisted against a civil servant or a person performing the functions of public administration—all charges related to  Deimante Kedyte violently being taken from Judge  Venckiene’s home and returned to the accused mother. 

19 (23) In October 2017, Lithuanian prosecutor in  the case, D. Jakutis, explained to news outlet  Lietuvos Rytas that political charges were intentionally removed from the extradition request so that the request would not be rejected by United States  authorities. He also noted that if Judge Venckiene is returned to Lithuania, new charges related to the  old case could be added. 

3 (24) Former political prisoners, current and  former government officials in Lithuania, as well as other prominent members of society in Lithuania,  have written to the United States Government,  warning that the Lithuanian Government’s charges  against Judge Venckiene are politically motivated. 

9 (25) The Chairman of the Supreme Court of  Lithuania Gintaras Kryzevicius has been reported as publicly saying that Judge Venckiene ‘‘is an abscess in the legal system and an abscess in the political  system’’ and ‘‘the trouble of the whole state’’. 

14 (26) Finland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Israel, Germany, Austria, Malta, Ukraine, and Russia have all refused to extradite individuals  to Lithuania. 

18 (27) Judge Venckiene can present evidence concerning the political motivation of Lithuania’s  charges against her before an immigration judge if she is excluded from the extradition treaty and allowed to proceed with her political asylum case, filed  in 2013 and scheduled to be heard in July 2019. 

 

1 SEC. 3. EXCLUSION FROM EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN 

2 THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPUBLIC OF 3 LITHUANIA; EFFECT OF APPLICATION FOR  ASYLUM. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Judge Neringa Venckiene shall be excluded  from extradition under the Extradition Treaty Between  the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, signed at  Vilnius on October 23, 2001, and entered into force on  March 31, 2003 (as amended by the Protocol on the Application of the Agreement on Extradition between the United States of America and the European Union to the  Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United  States of America and the Government of the Republic 

16 of Lithuania, signed at Brussels on June 15, 2005, and  entered into force on February 1, 2010), and excluded  from all other laws allowing for her extradition to Lithuania. 

20 (b) POLITICAL ASYLUM.—Judge Neringa Venckiene shall be permitted to remain in the United States until  a final order is issued with respect to her pending application for asylum. 

24 (c) FREE MOVEMENT.—Judge Neringa Venckiene shall not be held in Federal or State prison or detention  for any immigration-related or extradition-related offense and shall be allowed free movement and continued work permission until a final order is issued with respect to her pending application for asylum. 

 

Ketvirtadienį, kuomet buvo pristatytas šis įstatymas, Kongrese lankėsi ir aukšti Lietuvos pareigūnai. Sekant Lietuvos spaudą, šio įstatymo kopija paviešinta nebuvo. Nesulaukė dėmesio ir Lietuvos žurnalistai, ypač ,,Lietuvos rytas”, kuris galėtų didžiuotis –  juk būtent jis paminėtas JAV KONGRESUI pasiūlytame įstatyme! Kongresmenai buvo supažindinti  su prokuroro D. Jakučio pasisakymu:

(…)  „Įtarimuose neliko politikos

Per puspenktų metų sumenko ne tik prokuratūros žinios apie N.Venckienę, bet ir jai pateiktų įtarimų puokštė.

Iš anksčiau pareikštų įtarimų pagal 16 Baudžiamojo kodekso straipsnių prokuratūra du – dėl valstybės simbolių išniekinimo ir viešų raginimų pažeisti Lietuvos suverenitetą – išmetė.

„Sprendžiant dėl ekstradicijos yra žiūrima, ar tai nėra politinė byla, todėl N.Venckienei yra panaikinti įtarimai, kurie susiję su politika, nes jie gali tapti pagrindu neišduoti jos Lietuvai“, – „Lietuvos rytui“ paaiškino D.Jakutis.

Dabar N.Venckienė yra kaltinama neteisėtu informacijos rinkimu, mirusiojo atminimo paniekinimu, šmeižimu, įžeidimu, neteisėtai surinktos informacijos panaudojimu, piktnaudžiavimu, melagingu pranešimu apie nebūtą nusikaltimą, piktnaudžiavimu globėjos pareigomis, tvirkinimu, trukdymu antstolei ir prokurorui atlikti savo pareigas, nepagarba teismui, teismo sprendimo nevykdymu, nežymiu sveikatos sutrikdymu ir pasipriešinimu policijos pareigūnams.

Pasak D.Jakučio, jei susigrąžinus N.Venckienę paaiškėtų, kad ji yra padariusi ir daugiau nusikaltimų, pavyzdžiui, atsirastų įrodymų, kad ji padėjo savo broliui Drąsiui Kedžiui organizuoti Jono Furmanavičiaus ir Violetos Naruševičienės nužudymą, papildyti kaltinimus nebūtų sunku.“

https://lietuvosdiena.lrytas.lt/aktualijos/2017/10/26/news/neringa-venckiene-gali-nurimti-niekas-jos-neiesko-3261204/?

Keistoka – tokia svarbi informacija slepiama nuo Lietuvos žmonių?!