Couldn't Take It. Lithuanian Figure Who Fled Trial in His Homeland to Belarus, Admitted to Intensive Care
Life in Belarus and close cooperation with Belarusian propagandists, it seems, became such an enormous psychological and physical stress that the fugitive's health gave out.
"'Hysteria in Lithuania': renowned Lithuanian politician Antanas Kandrotas arrived in Belarus and told the whole truth about the persecution in his homeland" — that's how the interview with Tselafanas was titled on Belarus-4
Lithuanian Antanas Kandrotas-Tselafanas, whom Belarusian propagandists "evacuated" from Lithuania and who managed to give Belarusian television an "interview without censorship or oversight," has been admitted to intensive care in Belarus. This information was reported by his lawyer at the appeals court in Vilnius.
The Vilnius District Court was forced to postpone the consideration of the appeals of the pro-Russian Lithuanian figure Antanas Kandrotas (known by the nickname Tselafanas). The session was rescheduled for July 7 due to the illness of his lawyer Erikas Rugienius, as well as urgent circumstances concerning the suspect himself.
As became known from the petition read in court, Kandrotas is currently in Belarus, where he allegedly suffered a heart attack, and is currently undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit.
Criminal Cases and Attacks on the Tsikhanouskis
In his homeland, Kandrotas was tried for a whole series of criminal and administrative offenses. His biography includes financial fraud, as well as repeated instances of hooliganism and violence. A separate layer of court cases concerns inciting hatred and public insults against politicians and representatives of the LGBT community.
Tselafanas also actively opposed the presence of Belarusians in Lithuania. He insulted the Tsikhanouskis, calling Siarhei a "Bulbash" and suggesting he leave the country with his wife. The figure publicly threatened to "pack up" both opposition leaders and "send them express to Minsk" — to where he himself, in the end, fled to escape prison.
At the time of his flight to Belarus, Kandrotas had a sentence of actual imprisonment, which had not yet entered into legal force due to appeal processes. This concerned the case of the riots near the Seimas in 2021.
Furthermore, a restrictive measure was in effect against him — a written obligation not to leave Lithuania.
Whether this sudden illness is a tool to delay legal proceedings in his homeland, or whether life in Belarus became such an enormous psychological and physical stress that the fugitive's health gave out, is unknown.
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