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According to Judge Algimantas Valantinas, who chaired the panel of judges, the execution of the sentence imposed on R. Paksas was postponed for two years and three months, during which time he is prohibited from leaving his place of residence without informing the authorities.
The former politician also had to pay a contribution of 941 euros to the Fund for Victims of Crime within a month.
Both R. Paksas and G. Vainauskas have been found guilty of the impact of the trade.
“Both the nature of the crime itself has been taken into account, that is, influence trading, there is only one proposal, an agreement, actually without consequences, it is a formal composition. Another thing, when choosing such punishments, the court also took into account the duration of the process, the personality of the convicts, as you know, none of them were convicted, “A. Valantinas told reporters after the hearing.
According to him, the Penal Code provided for the possibility of imposing a fine on G Vainauskas for the crime committed by him, but in the case of R. Paksas there is no such penalty: if he is found guilty, only a privative sentence can be imposed of freedom.
“The appeals court is bound by the appeal, these are the penalties that the prosecutor has proposed and we have applied them to such an extent,” said A. Valantinas.
Likewise, the businessman accused in the Antanas Juozas Zabulis case was acquitted due to the accusations made against him. G.Vainauskas was also acquitted for an episode related to this businessman.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, R. Paksas and G Vainauskas agreed in 2015 in 15 thousand. euro bribery for a politician’s promise to influence construction inspectors to obtain permission to use the shop in Prienai. They denied their guilt. G.Vainauskas claimed that he was conducting a journalistic investigation and R. Paksas claimed that the case was aimed at removing him from politics.
“Influence was exchanged, bribes were promised and accepted for certain actions, namely to accelerate the process of completing the addition of the Norfa shopping center in Prienai,” said the President of the Court of Appeal.
In the AJZabulis episode, law enforcement officials suspected that G. Vainauskas had accepted a bribe from a businessman for promising to use his influence to get the Financial Crimes Investigation Service to end the investigation into the fraudulent absorption of the company’s support. European Union by the renewable energy and high technology company BOD Group. The fraud investigation is over.
According to prosecutors, AJZabulis acted in the interests of Vidod Janulevičius, director of the BOD Group, and was suspected in the aforementioned fraud investigation.
According to A. Valantinas, the conclusions of the Court of First Instance on this episode are correct and justified.
“And the appeals court, after examining all the evidence, was convinced that it was not possible to establish that such an agreement had taken place, and therefore confirmed the acquittal,” said the president of the Court of Appeals.
On April 15, the Vilnius Regional Court ruled that not all the defendants had committed any act that showed signs of crime or wrongdoing.
According to the judges who heard the case at the time, it could not be unequivocally and unequivocally concluded from the material compiled by the Prosecutor’s Office during the pre-trial investigation that the defendant had accepted a bribe, had clearly understood this agreement or promised commit corruption.
This decision was appealed to the Court of Appeal by prosecutors, whose appeal was partially upheld by Friday’s decision.
The prosecutor who filed the complaint offered R. Paksas a conditional sentence of three years and two months in prison, G Vainauskas was asked for a conditional sentence of three years and 26 thousand in prison. a fine of EUR. AJZabulis aims to allocate 24 thousand. a fine of EUR.
The decision of the Court of Appeal takes effect immediately, but can be appealed on cassation to the Supreme Court of Lithuania.
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