PGO not to reopen murder investigation

  • 2009-03-26
  • From BNS wire reports
VILNIUS - Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office has decided against revisiting its probe into the obscure circumstances of the death of State Security Department officer Vytautas Pociunas during his official visit to Brest of Southwestern Belarus on Aug. 23, 2006.

The late officer's widow, Liudvika Pociuniene, had appealed to a superior prosecutor the Prosecutor General's Office to reopen the investigation. It was the third time Pociuniene called for reopening the investigation.

Chief Prosecutor of the Pretrial Investigation Control Division Zenonas Burokas summed up the previous ruling with consideration to arguments put forth by Pociuniene and decided to dismiss her appeal, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.

In November 2006, Lithuanian prosecutors found that the death of Pociunas during a working trip to Brest on Aug. 23 2006, was an accident and called off an underway pretrial investigation. A later investigation confirmed the conclusion.