"Evidence collected during a repeated investigation shows that the person's life was not taken due to criminal reliance upon a person or persons, recklessness or premeditated actions, consequently, according to the Code of Criminal Process of the Republic of Lithuania, further criminal proceedings are not possible," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a press release.
The decision was made by prosecutor Artūras Urbelis, who is in charge of organized crime and corruption at the Prosecutor General's Office, on Thursday.
According to him, prosecutors in the course of the investigation received and examined documents from the State Security Department, the Foreign Ministry, the government's office, the State Border Guard Service, banks and telecommunications companies. They also examined the place of the incident, carried out two experiments and four specialist tests.
In the case, prosecutors also received responses of two countries to requests for legal assistance, interrogated three specialists and about 100 witnesses.
Pociūnas died in the Belarusian city of Brest on August 23, 2006, under mysterious circumstances. He fell out of a window of his hotel. The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has twice listed the death as an accident, but an investigation was reopened. Murder was one of the versions under investigation.
