V. Ivanovas will be expelled from Lithuania – Respublika.lt

Last week, the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania announced that V. Ivanovas did not state important reasons that prevented him from exercising the right to judicial defense within the deadlines set by the law, which would constitute grounds for extending this deadline. On January 24, the Kaunas Chamber of the Regional Administrative Court received a complaint from the applicant, in which he requested to annul the decision of the Migration Department on November 7 last year, which revoked his permanent residence permit in Lithuania.

The applicant stated in the complaint that he received the decision of the Migration Department on January 13 of this year, therefore he did not miss the deadline to file a complaint regarding the annulment of the decision. The Kaunas Chamber of the Administrative Court of Regions refused to accept the applicant’s complaint by its ruling dated February 1 and decided to return the 30 euro stamp duty paid to the applicant after the ruling became effective.

The court indicated that the applicant submitted data to the complaint that the Migration Department, in response to his 2023 December 20 request, 2024 January 9 sent the contested decision to the applicant, which was delivered to him in 2024 January 13

However, from the data provided by the Migration Department in the case, it was established that the decision of the department dated November 7 last year was sent to the applicant the very next day, November 8, to the e-mail address specified in the person’s active account in the Lithuanian Migration Information System.

The Migration Department also explained that a foreigner in 2023 in August, he came to the Migration Department (for an interview), handed over his business card, in which the e-mail was corrected at his request. e-mail address: the foreigner explained that he was temporarily unable to use one e-mail, so he requested a decision to send to another e-mail.

The court decided that the applicant had been aware of the contested decision since 2023. on November 9, but the applicant approached the court only on January 24 of the following year, having obviously missed the deadline for filing a complaint and did not ask to renew it.

The court also noted that the applicant himself stated in the complaint that he went to the Migration Department for interviews, he knew that in 2023 August 16 The Migration Department applied to the State Security Department (VSD) with a request to assess the threat posed by the applicant to state security based on its competence.

in 2023 October 18 The Migration Department received a letter from the VSD regarding the applicant’s threat to state security.

“The applicant knew that a decision would be made, he indicated his e-mail address, which he later clarified by handing over a business card to the Migration Department. The extract and Lithuanian migration information systems confirm that the decision was sent to the specified electronic addresses, therefore the applicant applied to the court after missing the 14-day deadline set by the law”, announced the Kaunas Chamber of the Regional Administrative Court.

The court also noted that establishing the fact that the deadline has been missed and the absence of a request to renew the deadline are sufficient conditions for refusing to accept the complaint (request) filed with the court. The court emphasized that when the fact of missing the deadline is obvious, the court is not obliged to explain any additional circumstances. In addition, the law does not oblige the court to additionally offer the applicant to submit a request for extension of the deadline.

In turn, the court explained to the applicant that this ruling does not prevent the applicant from filing a complaint with the court again, by submitting a request to renew the deadline for filing the complaint, indicating the reasons for its omission and providing evidence confirming these reasons.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, which examined V. Ivanov’s separate complaint, also approved this court decision.

“The applicant did not indicate important reasons that prevented the exercise of the right to judicial defense within the deadlines set by the law, which are grounds for renewing this deadline. The panel of judges states that the court of first instance correctly applied and interpreted the rules of procedural law governing the acceptance of the complaint, therefore the applicant’s separate complaint is rejected, and the decision of the court of first instance is left unchanged”, – wrote the judges of the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania Laimutis Alechnavičius, Arūnas Dirvonas and In the ruling passed by Arthur Drigot.

The Migration Department made the decision to deport V. Ivanovas from Lithuania after analyzing publicly available information and receiving additional information from the responsible institutions of the country – VSD, Police Department, State Border Guard Service.

ELTA reminds that V. Ivanovas is now being tried in a criminal case together with Erika Švenčioniene and Kazimierus Juraičius, who participated in the activities of the liquidated “International Good Neighbor Forum”. In this case, the former leader of the pro-Soviet organization “Jedinstvo” V. Ivanovas is accused of the 1991 denial of the fact of the aggression of the USSR against Lithuania. According to law enforcement, he was charged in connection with his thoughts about the events of January 13th in a program that was broadcast last year.

The Migration Department has announced that in the event that the decision to cancel V. Ivanov’s permit becomes valid before the end of the criminal proceedings, he would have to stay in Lithuania while it continues, and pretrial measures will be issued to him. However, after the trial is over and the decision becomes final, he will have to leave. V. Ivanovo. In the case of K. Juraitis and E. Švenčionienė, the court is now questioning the witnesses.

In July 1997, V. Ivanov was sentenced to one year in prison for slandering those who died on January 13, 1991. V. Ivanovs then claimed that all the victims were Lithuanian falsifications, and that the Soviet army did not kill a single defender of freedom in Vilnius.

He served his sentence in the then Alytus strict regime correctional colony. After V. Ivanov was released, the then Minister of Internal Affairs Vidmantas Žiemelis sent a submission to the court regarding the deportation of this Russian citizen from Lithuania.

in 2007 A Russian citizen was involved in an incident with radio and television presenter Algis Ramanauskas, V. Ivanovas was found guilty of disturbing public order, and in 2013 a man was fined for displaying a portrait of former USSR leader Joseph Stalin in the Antakalnis cemetery on Victory Day against fascism.