Prosecutors in Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas said on Wednesday they had concluded their pre-trial investigation in the case of Neringa Venckiene, a former judge and lawmaker who was extradited from the United States last year.
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Neringa Venckienė is a Lithuanian judge, politician, writer, and a former member of the Seimas of Lithuania. She was involved in exposing a pedophile ring with high-ranking officials involved.
Facing serious charges, she fled to the United States in 2013 and asked for political asylum.
On November of 2019, she was extradited back to Lithuania, where she awaits her trial.
Neringa Venckiene, a former Lithuanian judge and parliamentarian recently extradited from the United States, left Kaunas Remand Prison on Tuesday after a court released her on bail.
The Kaunas District Court extended on Friday the arrest warrant for Neringa Venckiene for two months, according to the lawyer of the former judge and lawmaker who returned to Lithuania on Wednesday after being extradited from the United States.
Prosecutor Darius Jakutis is asking a court in Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, to sanction the arrest of Neringa Venckiene, a former judge and lawmaker who was extradited from the United States earlier on Wednesday, for two months, with the ruling due on Friday.
Neringa Venckiene, a former judge and lawmaker, was brought to Lithuania on Wednesday evening after her extradition from the United States.
Lithuania's Prosecutor General Evaldas Pasilis on Tuesday night confirmed the fact that the extradition of former judge and lawmaker Neringa Venckiene from the United States is ongoing but refused to comment on when exactly she would be brought to Lithuania.
A US court has dismissed an extradition appeal by Neringa Venckiene, a former Lithuanian judge and lawmaker.
Lithuania's former MP Neringa Venckienė who has been detained in the United States went before a US court on Thursday, delfi.lt news portal said.
The United States Department of Justice last Friday confirmed detention of Lithuania's former MP Neringa Venckienė, however, noted that no further detail would be provided.
Former Lithuanian judge and former MP Neringa Venckienė has been detained in Chicago, the United States, at Lithuania's request for refusing to obey a court order to hand over her niece to her mother.
The Lithuanian parliament's meeting of elders decided to remove the bid to revoke the mandate of MP Kęstutis Pūkas from the plenary agenda.
Neringa Venckienė, a former MP and a central figure in the so-called Garliava paedophilia scandal who is wanted in Lithuania, has asked her supporters for donations to fight extradition from the United States.
The US Justice Department has announced it has accepted Lithuania’s request for extradition of former MP and former judge Neringa Venckienė, said Lithuanian Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis.
The District Court of Kaunas, the second-largest city of Lithuania, on Tuesday sanctioned the arrest of former member of the Seimas Neringa Venckienė, charged with various criminal acts.
On Tuesday two new members of parliament were sworn in at the Seimas. Members of Parliament Arminas Lydeka and Stasys Brundza took their oaths. The oaths were administered by Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court Dainius Žalimas.
