Gytis Jonas Dambrauskas v Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania
| Judge | Mr Justice Pepperall |
| Judgment Date | 28 February 2025 |
| Neutral Citation | [2025] EWHC 463 (Admin) |
| Date | 28 February 2025 |
| Counsel | David Ball,Hannah Hinton |
| Year | 2025 |
| Court | King's Bench Division (Administrative Court) |
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE PEPPERALL
Approved Judgment
Dambrauskas v. Prosecutor General’s Office
of the Republic of Lithuania
Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 463 (Admin) Case No: AC-2024-LON-000342
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING’S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 28 February 2025
Before :
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE PEPPERALL
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Between :
GYTIS JONAS DAMBRAUSKAS
Applicant
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PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE
OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
Respondent
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David Ball (instructed by Hodge Jones & Allen LLP) for the Applicant
Hannah Hinton (instructed by theCrown Prosecution Service) for the Respondent
Hearing dates: 23 January 2025
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Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 3pm on 28 February 2025
by circulation to the parties by email and by release to the National Archives.
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE PEPPERALL:
1.On 26 January 2024, District Judge Tempia sitting at Westminster Magistrates’ Court ordered the
extradition of Gytis Jonas Dambrauskas to Lithuania pursuant to a warrant issued by the Prosecutor
General’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania on 9 February 2022. Mr Dambrauskas now seeks
permission to appeal.
BACKGROUND
2.The warrant relates to an allegation that in July 2019 the applicant conspired with five others to
defraud Lithuanian banks by obtaining loans totalling €70,800 on the basis of fraudulent information
as to income. The applicant took two issues before the district judge:
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