Lithuanian dissident: Vytautas Pociunas was killed by KGB of Belarus

A loud statement was made by a human rights activist Nijole Sadunaite on August 23 during a meeting in Vilnius.

A dissident Nijole Sadunaite in her speech at the meeting near the monument of Adam Mitskevich (Mickiewicz) in Vilnius on Monday where the 23th anniversary of the first meeting at which the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was publicly condemned, is sure that Vytautas Pociunas, an officer of the Lithuanian State Security Department who died 4 years ago in Belarus, was murdered.

“Pociunas was killed 4 years ago. He was killed. One hundred per cent. I told that to Valdas Adamkus after the murder. Those Belarusian KGB men should be rounded up, they must show how they pushed him out through the widow, which opens only for a girl with the height of 150 centimetres and 50 kilograms of weight to get out,” the human rights activist said.

Vytautas Pociunas, who worked in the Lithuanian Consulate, died on August 23, 2006 under unascertained circumstances when he was on a business trip in Brest. Prosecutors came to a conclusion that it had been an accident. He allegedly fell through a window. The pretrial investigation was cancelled, however after a protest of relatives of the deceased to the court the investigation was resumed for the third time.

In February 2010 the case was re-defined and is investigated now as a murder.

According to unofficial reports, prosecutors have redefined the case as they had received new information, however they do not specify which one, and refuse to comment on the ongoing investigation.

Among the versions of the possible murder mentioned in the Lithuanian press recently it was stated that Pociunas by himself was interested corruption ties of Lithuanian businessmen and politicians, obscure energy projects, and disappearance of money earmarked for the Belarusian opposition.