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Gintaras Dzedulionis, head of the judging panel, said that both K. Strupas and the patient found guilty of bribery by the previous court had been acquitted because it had not been proven that they had committed the acts of which they were charged.
According to the judge, although there was communication between the accused, the file did not state that they had agreed to a reward or that the patient had actually delivered the bribe.
“The communication took place, the communication was recorded, a conversation was recorded, two cases were recorded, in one case they delivered an envelope, in another case they delivered some paper,” said G. Dzedulionis.
According to him, the defendants stated that the envelope contained information on the patient’s condition and the name and address of the cafe belonging to the patient to whom he wanted to invite K. Strup was written on the leaflet. These positions of the accused were not refuted either by the file or by the experts.
“Whatever paper was not found there, the expert concluded that there was no objective data on whether it was a banknote or not,” the judge said.
According to G. Dzedulionis, the expert found the paper to be greenish, but that is not enough to assume it was money, as prosecutors did.
“The presumption that it was a bank note, the presumption that it was a bank note and the presumption that it was a monetary reward,” explained the judge.
He stressed that neither the contents of the envelope nor the paper had been determined and that the conviction could not be based on presumptions.
The court began hearing the case on appeal after K. Strupas appealed against a judgment handed down by the Vilnius District Court in March, and found him guilty of accepting an unspecified bribe from a patient for surgery.
K. Strupas then received 5,000. a fine of EUR. 4.5 thousand were given to the patient with bribes. he also appealed against that sentence.
The Vilnius District Court imposed the most lenient types of punishment on both defendants in the case, without establishing aggravating circumstances, and its amount is between the minimum and the average fine imposed for such an offense.
The Vilnius Regional Court’s panel of judges, which examined the complaints, re-examined the evidence in the case and also interviewed a video expert.
K. Strupas was removed from the position of director of the Santara clinics at his request in 2018, when he was suspected in a large-scale pre-trial investigation into possible abuse and large-scale bribery and bribery at the Santara clinics.
In May 2019, the investigation against K. Strup in the abuse case ended and he was charged with bribery, which was investigated in a separate pre-trial investigation.
The investigation into large-scale abuse and bribery at the Santara clinics continues at the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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