On Wednesday, April 2, the Riga District Court found the former head of the Riga Regional Department of the State Police, General Juris Šulte, guilty of the murder of businessman Jānis Garkalns while hunting in the Ropaži district near Rīga in the fall of 2022.
The court of first instance found Šulte guilty under Article 116 of the Criminal Law, namely, of the intentional unlawful killing of another person.
The court imposed the sentence requested by the prosecutor of 7 y...