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October 3,\u00a0Pozirk.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>The Vilnius Regional Court has begun the trial of lawyer Mantas Danielius, the broadcaster\u00a0LRT<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a> yesterday. The Vilnius resident is accused of spying on Belarusian opposition leaders and interfering with witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to investigators, since January 2022, Danielius carried out assignments for a Belarusian woman cooperating with her country’s intelligence service, the Baltic news agency BNS<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also quoted prosecutors as saying that Lithuania launched a pre-trial investigation in late September 2022, after receiving “reasonable evidence” that Danielius had allegedly been “collecting and passing on information of interest” since earlier that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the guise of a volunteer, the defendant allegedly maintained contacts with “organizations operating in Lithuania and uniting the democratic opposition to the Belarusian regime” and with “those who moved to Lithuania after the presidential election in Belarus in August 2020,” the investigators said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Danielius visited the Belarusian opposition organizations, participated in their events, collected and shared information about their activities, ongoing projects, sources of funding, members and meetings,” they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BNS <\/em>reported that propagandist Ksienija Lebiedzieva, who allegedly recruited the defendant and cooperated with the Belarusian intelligence service, instructed Danielius on methods of collecting and transferring the “information of interest.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intelligence service was reportedly interested in exiled Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja. But members of Belarusian organizations reported the lawyer’s “suspicious activities” to law enforcers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danielius is also accused of “collecting and possibly transferring” information about the Kastu\u015b Kalino\u016dski Regiment, a Belarusian volunteer unit fighting Russia in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man would face six to 15 years in prison, if convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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