The director of the Vilnius municipality administration was summoned to the FNTT and questioned

The FNTT launched a pre-trial investigation into the misappropriation of property, the incorrect submission of data on income, earnings or property, fraudulent accounting, as well as the possible misuse of persons responsible for the Vilnius Municipal Administration and the waste of property. .

The pre-trial investigation began after receiving data that in late March the municipal administration concluded a transaction with Andrikus, a company registered in the capital and led by Andrius Mickus, for the purchase of ten lung ventilators for 278 thousand. euros

The price of the purchased devices and the choice of the provider raised doubts about the legality of the transaction, since the company’s activities are not related to the medical field. Furthermore, according to the transaction, the Vilnius Municipal Administration paid a 100 percent advance to the company. However, the devices were not delivered to the buyer within the terms stipulated in the contract, according to the FNTT press release.

The Vilnius City Municipality Administration initiated the unilateral termination procedure of the contract. According to the FNTT, as of January this year, in addition to the cash receipts from the aforementioned transaction, Andrikus also received income from other state and municipal institutions for the sale of medical products, but was unable to properly record all the income from goods and services, not all have been declared to the State Tax Inspection. This year, the company did not pay any taxes, did not file VAT returns, although it is a VAT payer, and did not submit part of the purchase and sale records to the STI system.

Incidentally, singer Kristina Ivanova’s friend, A. Mickus, is also suspected of involvement in a businessman robbery that took place in mid-May on the Klaipėda-Vilnius highway.