Drasius Kedys and the mafia – is he still free or is he dead?

Drasius Kedys

A scandal about pedophilia and the murder of a judge in Lithuania

A case of sexual child abuse lets whole Lithuania hold its breath. There is evidence of a pedophile network which are implicated in the apparently widespread use of the judiciary. Last week, a judge was shot dead on the street – the discussion is cooking up ever since.

“We have taken all the decisions that were necessary for the investigation.”

“While running the investigation, there is no further information.”

These quotes are at the beginning of a tribute song for Drasius Kedys, a 37 year old business man from Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania. Spoken by the Attorney General of the country, Algimantas Valantinas. They should show how dishonest and rotten the justice of the Baltic country is. No one knows whether Drasius Kedys is still alive. Since early last week he is gone, as a judge was executed with four shots in Kaunas on the open road. A case of vigilantism, because Kedys had denounced the judge of sexual abuse of his six-year-old daughter. He had given the prosecutor’s allegedly incriminating material, which also went to just about every politician in the country, even to the MPs Saulius Stoma:

“What Drasius Kedys has sent me and others, was already staggering. I obtained it from almost a year and then the same letters went to the Attorney General, several authorities for Child Protection and the Department of State Protection got it with the request for information about a possible pedophile network in Lithuania. The answers were purely of formal nature, without any details. The national security wrote to me only that they have nothing to do with the case Kedys, although that was not my question. “

Not only the national security, the Prosecutor General of Lithuania, too, remained inactive in this case. What after all already had a parliamentary aftermath resulted, explains Stasys Sedbaras, chairman of the Judiciary Committee:

“We have submitted a questionnaire to the Attorney General, he must now explain why the suspicion of pedophilia, the abuse of a little girl, was barely explored, since special attention was needed. Either there should’ve been immediate operative investigations against pedophiles needed to be performed or when the display have proved to be libel, it would restore the honor of the innocent people and punish the slanderers. The prosecution, however, reacted only indifferent. “

Why? For many media in Lithuania it’s obvious: Because not only the murdered judge, but also other potentially high-profile figures messe with the child. That the prosecution has now started investigations against the politician Andrius Uzza won’t polish his reputation, “The investigation is being delayed by the officials swimming in blood” or “the dirt doesn’t go away from the suitsof the officials,” denominated a few headlines in recent days. And even the population almost agreedis not convinced that they can deal with an independent judiciary:

“Our judiciary is very corrupt. That does not justify killing a judge, but I still think that something needs to happen with our case law.” Says the 62-year-old Aldutis, and the two years younger Antanas, a German teacher, says:

“These are bad conditions. Not with the people, but these judges and the whole judicial system. They’re all in cahoots, they know each other from school and the evil Soviet era, former party bosses. That’s why all that happens.”

It is known that the murdered judge and the general prosecutor have been good friends. That in this case even some monstrosity comes to light is also believed by the MPs Saulis Stoma:

“The situation is really intolerable. It is an open secret that our judicial authorities work on a very low level and may be favored by factors that are absolutely not to be tolerated. So if only one pedophile network in Lithuania is working and has it’s own people among the judges and other judicial officers, this is just terrible. “

We also get no confidence in an independent investigation because of the fact that the prosecutor in the capital Vilnius, that was appointed only a week ago with the case, announced his resignation yesterday: For personal reasons, that’s all he says. The whereabouts of Drasius Kedys who is a hero for many in Lithuania, will continue to be speculated. The police does not consider it impossible that he has become a victim of the mafia in Kaunas. And the assumption is, that there was still a score to settle with the judge. Kedys might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, because he had a motive.

translated into english from the original text of Albrecht Breitschuh for dradio.de

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