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According to the prosecutor’s office, E. Pašilis made such a decision after learning about the material from the official inspection completed on Tuesday and the official sanctions offered to prosecutors.
All three prosecutors were removed from their posts in May when an official inspection began. During this period, N. Marcinkevičius and D. Puzinas filed applications and were dismissed, but if they were subjected to the most severe punishment, dismissal, the former prosecutors would lose their impeccable reputation and would be considered fired for misconduct.
According to E. Pašilis, due to the powers and guarantees granted to them, higher ethical and moral standards are set for prosecutors.
“I am therefore convinced that in cases where, unfortunately, there are reasonable doubts about the prosecutor’s reputation, transparency, impartiality, ethics, and law enforcement, I have no right, formal or moral, to seek a different decision, “says the report. cited by the Attorney General.
In May, the Attorney General’s Office announced an ongoing pre-trial investigation on suspicion of trafficking, bribery, abuse and bribery. At that time, a total of 11 people were arrested, including N. Marcinkevičius and U. Vyčinas, prosecutors of the Criminal Prosecution Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office, and D. Puzinas, Prosecutor of the Second Prosecution Division of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of Kaunas, Chief Investigator of the Vilnius Nerijus Valatka District Investigation Service, practicing lawyer in Kaunas Šarūnas Mickevičius and six other private individuals.
According to prosecutors, the detained officers, acting independently of each other, met informally with Š. Mickiewicz and commented on the course of the pre-trial economic-financial inquiries at their disposal, the undisclosed data and the possibilities of taking procedural decisions in which the individuals unofficially represented by this lawyer are interested.
In this way, it is considered that material or other benefits are sought in certain cases.
E. Pašilis then stated that “such actions could have been carried out in particularly significant cases related to the waste of property in Ūkio bankas, in the Credit Union cases”.
This pre-trial investigation is controlled and organized by the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Directorate of the Attorney General’s Office and carried out by the Special Investigation Service.
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