Thomas Chivas: Lithuanian special services used Kusaite as bait for Muslims

The special service VSD (Lithuanian State Security Police) dealt with Egle Kusaite, starting several years before her arrest, as a sort of "bait" to find out the intentions of Muslims in the country. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by the Lithuanian journalist Thomas Chivas, who is covering Egle Kusaite's case and attending court sessions in Vilnius.

"Back in 2007, Egle, who had made friends with Chechen children since the age of 13, went to Germany and lived, as she herself now recognizes, with "strange people." It happened after her boyfriend, a Chechen, whom he loved, perished. Egle's mother and aunt began addressing various instances trying to return Egle home. Among other bodies, they addressed the VSD, where they received no helped but were "ticked". And when relatives finally brought Egle back home, the VSD entered the game and used Egle as an enticement for the Muslims, who arrived in Lithuania, and were deliberately introduced to her for further watching. The fact was that in Germany Egle got converted to Islam. After her return to Lithuania, VSD agents kept telling Egle's relatives that she was OK, "not interfering with anything." However, at that time Egle was living in the apartment leased by the VSD ," Thomas Chivas told about details of Egle Kusaite's case, which became clear in the course of latest court sessions.

When the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was in Vilnius, Egle Kusaite told in her interview how she had got into the sphere of interests of the VSD:

"When I was 13, I got acquainted at school with a Chechen Toita Sadullaeva. She had a brother, Ali. It was a usual children's friendship. Then, Arnas Baranauskas appeared, a man who was supposedly taking care about Chechen children in Klaipeda. <...> Now I think that Arnas was an agent of the VSD. He tried to introduce me to other Chechens. In my story there are three Aishats: Aishat Bataisheva from Germany, Aishat Koshevaya from Lithuania and Aishat Magmadova from Russia. I was in correspondence with all of them. I lived in Germany for three months in the Batayshev family. When I returned to Vilnius, I settled in the apartment, which, as I believed, was hired by Muslims. But in fact, it was a VSD's flat. From there I corresponded and made calls to the Bataishevs, Magmadovs and Koshevaya. Amina Lina Sirin lived with me in that apartment (she is now acting at the trial as a secret VSD agent, - note of the "Caucasian Knot"), which was writing down my talks to dictaphone. Aishat Koshevaya was constantly provoking me to radical statements. I agreed with the idea that she had expressed - to commit a suicide bombing somewhere in Russia. And now the words of Aishat Koshevaya are ascribed also to Aishat Magmadova," Egle Kusaite told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"I was in such condition. I think they were putting something into my meals. When I lived with Sirin, my health got strongly deteriorated. I had headaches; my hair was falling out right in strands. I could not understand what was happening to me. After I moved out of that apartment, I had no longer any ideas about suicide bombing," Egle Kusaite told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"In Germany, Egle met Aishat Bataisheva, who also has a passport with a Polish surname. Then the VSD put another 'Aishat' to her, also known as Elena Baltrusite-Koshevaya - one of the present secret witnesses of the VSD at Egle's trial. Egle believes that her conversations and correspondence with various Aishats are deliberately mixed up in order to fabricate a case against her," said Thomas Chivas.