As reported by Giedrius Janonis, a representative of the Vilnius City District Court, this ruling also changed the conditions of the preventive measures, obliging the accused to constantly wear an electronic monitoring device and not to leave home from 9:30 PM to 1:30 PM, except in cases related to the need for healthcare services, and not to leave the Vilnius city limits.
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This ruling also decided to change the amount of the bail applied to the accused V. Germanas to 2 million euros.
The court’s decision to change the conditions of intensive supervision applied to the accused – to allow the accused to leave the place of residence at a time set by the court – was made taking into account the preliminary course of the criminal proceedings, the duration of the preventive measure applied to the accused, as well as the nature of the previously applied restrictions and the fact that the scope of the bail was also changed, tightening it.
Now the intensive supervision applied to V. Germanas is valid until August 16. As BNS wrote, the accused was detained for almost one and a half years, but the laws do not allow a person to be held in detention for more than 18 months, so V. Germanas was released in mid-February. Two preventive measures were applied to him – a bail of 1 million euros and intensive supervision with a shackle.
The accused previously stated in court that his shackle works “very doubtfully,” allegedly the signal often disappears. V. Germanas also doubted the need to wear an electronic monitoring device.
On Monday, the Vilnius City District Court extended the temporary property restriction on the assets of the company “Exawatt,” associated with V. Germanas, for six months.
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BNS wrote that in this large-scale case, V. Germanas is accused of fraudulently appropriating cryptocurrency mining equipment worth more than 23 million euros in an organized group with Mindaugas Navickas, Alfonsas Ambrazas, and Andrius Razma.
V. Germanas is also accused of possessing forged identity documents, as fake Greek, Portuguese, and Bulgarian identity documents with his photos were found in a safe during searches.
The case hearing was scheduled for mid-July but postponed to September because the plaintiff’s Hong Kong and Portuguese companies must submit additional documents at the request of the defendants’ lawyers.
This criminal case was separated from the “Foxpay” pre-trial investigation, in which law enforcement suspects the legalization of at least 17 million euros of illegally obtained funds and bribes totaling 100 thousand euros.
In 2024, the prosecution announced that crimes related to “Foxpay” under investigation include embezzlement, theft, large-scale fraud, bribery, corruption, and legalization of criminally obtained property.
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