“I came to Lithuania because I had to take illegal migrants out of here, I was promised to pay 400 euros for it,” the officials admitted during the interview. Polish citizen Adam Daniel Mieczkowski.
He made no secret of the fact that he had arrived in Lithuania on the instructions of the criminals he met in prison – that he did not have a job, needed money, and the “clients” threatened retaliation, so he had to follow their instructions.
A citizen of a neighboring country was detained in the Lavoriškės border section near Belarus officials He was accused of intending to transport illegal migrants, spent two months in prison, and was then released and returned to his native Poland. At that time, the Vilnius Regional District Court ordered AD Mieczkowski to be fined 8,000 euros for the crime, but the convicted foreigner would not have to pay – the sentence included remand in custody, so the court ruled that the man had already served his sentence.
“The court finds that AD Mieczkowski attempted to illegally transport aliens who do not have a permanent residence in the Republic of Lithuania across the state border of the Republic of Lithuania,” the judge announced Tadeusz Volkovsky.
According to the case file, it was established that a Polish citizen was detained at the Belarusian border on the Lithuanian side, in the Vilnius district, in Išoriškės village, on the afternoon of July 7 – a man driving a Citroen Jumper near the state border was spotted Lavoriškės firewall border post officials.
In official reports, officials said the driver of the stopped car could not explain what he was doing to Belarusian borders: “He explained that he had no destination, came for a ride and lost his passport. The person just delivered to the Lavoriškės border guard explained that he had received the coordinates by phone, according to which he arrived at the place and had to take a group of people there and transport them to Poland for a monetary fee ”.
An officer from the Criminal Intelligence Department came to talk to the detained Polish. According to him, during the conversation, the foreigner admitted that he had received 900 Polish zlotys from strangers, for whom he rented a car and refueled, and that he was promised to pay for the transportation of migrants at the time “people will be brought to Poland”.
According to the official, the Polish citizen admitted that he was waiting for a group of people near the village, the coordinates were sent to him by phone, but because the area is unfamiliar to him, the man got lost and approached too close to the state border.
“I looked at his mobile phone, found correspondence with another person and the coordinates he sent in the WhatsApp app on it – the man was told that he should count how many people would get in the car,” the official said the Pole could not say how much he had to carry people, but considered that it could be a group of two or three people, so they arrived not by car but by minibus.
“When it was suspected that the person had arrived to transport foreigners who had crossed the state border illegally, the person and car had been delivered to the Vilnius border team,” the border official said.
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The Polish prosecuted admitted that he had to deport illegal migrants from Belarus from Lithuania during all the interviews, but did not dare to disclose the clients.
The man said that from 2012 to 2021. in February he was imprisoned for thefts and beatings.
“When I left prison, I was called by a man who said he knew me from prison,” the suspect said, noting that he still didn’t know the identity of the man who called him, nor did he know where he got his cell phone from. Phone number. – I don’t know if that man is still in prison or has already been released, but he kept calling me, saying there was a job, he would have to go abroad. I didn’t ask what kind of work it was. I love driving, so I wanted to make money. But I didn’t go abroad anyway, and then he called and said that I needed to go to Lithuania – people would have to be taken here, brought back to Poland and that I would earn money for it, he promised to pay 400 euros. “
AD Mieczkowski assured that the caller had promised to provide the car and then transferred 950 zlotys, of which 650 had to be handed over to the man bringing the car.
“I did so, during the transfer of the car, I signed a document that I received the car, and then I went to Lithuania,” the prosecuted foreigner explained that the stranger sent him the coordinates by phone where to go.
“I knew I was going to take people, but I didn’t know how many of them, where they were, who they were, but it wasn’t interesting to me, I just wanted to make money,” he said.
When the Pole arrived at the specified place, he stopped in the middle of the fields: I want to. I decided to go to the forest and wait there. And then that stranger called and said that people couldn’t get ready, they had to wait, so they told them to go somewhere else to wait. “
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During the interrogation, the man also admitted that at the time he had suspicions that he might be involved in some criminal history: “The car was suspiciously clean, without registration documents, I thought I might have been stuffed with drugs. I panicked, I started driving – to the forest, back, then I decided to find a quiet place where I could wait for me to call and tell me that I already need to go to pick up people. I approached the river, I wanted to wait here, but when I turned on the navigation, I saw that I was right next to the state border, so I decided to drive a little further, but the border guards stopped me while driving. “
And during another interview, the man stated that when going to Lithuania to take foreigners who came from Belarus, he hoped not only to earn money.
“I didn’t get paid for transporting people, I was promised to pay the money later,” he said. – I could not refuse such an offer because I was afraid – the person who found the car and told me to drive knew both my and my parents’ details, residential addresses. He and another person pressured me, threatened me, even tortured me – I knew that if I didn’t go to get people, it wouldn’t end for me. “
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