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The upcoming elections are forcing politicians to use ingenuity to get voters’ attention, and in 15 minutes it takes to see how much truth politicians have in announcements and election speeches. Do you suspect that the facts expressed by the politician are false? Send your comments by email [email protected] or fill out the form below this news.
“We have a flawed annual practice when we try to politicize any investigation, pre-trial investigation before elections, regardless of the type of elections: the Seimas, the President or the European Parliament. We can also remember the so-called history of the golden spoons, where It sounded very loud, but if I asked him what it ended up in, he ended up undermining the Social Democratic government in 2016 and was left with nothing. We probably have a similar situation. ” the Prime Minister spoke.
Such a statement by the prime minister raised doubts, as this scandal brought changes.
First, the Defense Resources Agency was established. It is a centralized military procurement body that was designed to make the system more transparent.
The creation of the agency was spurred by the gold scandal, when the military purchased outdoor cookware from Nota Bene at several times the market price.
Furthermore, Andrius Jazgevičius, the head of Nota Bene, who was at the epicenter of the scandal, did not shy away.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Director of Nota Bene Andrius Jazgevičius
He was prosecuted, in which case he was ultimately found guilty. In 2019, he was convicted of fraud and use of foreign trademarks.
The court awarded A. Jazgevičius 7 thousand. fined him 4 thousand euros. damage to the Lithuanian Armed Forces and pay a contribution of 750 euros to the Fund for Crime Victims.
Needs to be politically evaluated
15 minutes He appealed to the Government and referred to these circumstances and asked what the Prime Minister meant, saying that the scandal did not end at all.
The adviser to the Prime Minister Tomas Beržinskas, responding to the question, asked to pay attention to the context and place where this quote from S. Skvernel sounded.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Saulius Skvernelis and Tomas Beržinskas
This quote was echoed in the Seimas Chamber Hall in response to a written question from opposition MPs, who are also participating in this year’s Seimas elections. In other words, the context was absolutely political. The idea of the Prime Minister, expressed as an example of the political side of the so-called ‘golden spoon scandal’, was the same, not criminal, it did not involve natural or legal persons.
The Prime Minister spoke about the “golden spoon scandal” and its consequences for the then Social Democratic Party, the results of this party in the 2016 Seimas elections, which were probably significantly adjusted by the aforementioned “scandal”. The Prime Minister spoke of the fact that political damage to a particular party was undoubtedly done, but in the end none of the politicians – the then Minister of National Defense, his political team or public officials – was charged with any crime or missing, processed, etc. It was because of these people that the “scandal” and “nothing ended.”
The “scandal” itself was then and is now called political, it was aimed primarily at politicians. The Prime Minister spoke about them and about the political side of the “scandal” and the nuclear assembly, “was the answer. 15 minutes presented by T. Beržinskas.
He rebuked R. Karbauskis, but not the Prime Minister.
The then Minister of National Defense, Juozas Olekas, a delegate from the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, was the one who received the most criticism for the golden spoon scandal. 15 minutes When asked if he supported the prime minister’s position, he replied in the affirmative.
Oleks, who currently represents the Social Democrats in the European Parliament, said that all the accusations made against politicians, including himself, had really failed.
“It just came to our attention then. In a legal sense herons they were punished, “said J. Olekas.
Photo by Vidmantas Balkūnas / 15min photo / Juozas Olekas
“The accusations against the ministry and the minister completely fell apart and it turned out that it was used in the election campaign,” the former minister said. – On the other hand, the story ended correctly. The Ministry of National Defense, specifically for my decisions, handed over to justice a person and a company that succulent and tried to deceive the army. This succeeded in persuading law enforcement agencies to carry out an investigation that culminated in the punishment of a particular person and money fraudulently obtained from the military. [gauti], Return. That justice has taken over and we can rejoice over that. “
J. Olekas hinted that this scandal was fueled not only by the president and political opponents, but also by the president of the Lithuanian Green and Peasant Union Ramūnas Karbauskis.
Asked whether the current speeches of the Prime Minister do not seem hypocritical in this context, the MEP said: “I could not say that to the Prime Minister because he was not an activist in this scandal. But he could boldly say it to Karbauskis, he used it as an example of how politicians and the minister do not cope. “
Therefore, in the 15-minute assessment, the prime minister’s statement that the so-called golden spoon story ended nowhere near the truth. For politicians, the scandal really ended without legal consequences, only with short-term losses of the trust of voters. But legally, the story ended in a criminal case and the culprit was punished. Additionally, military procurement reforms have been implemented.
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