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The violation was established after an official inspection, but the Prosecutor’s Office states that it cannot indicate its exact circumstances, as the laws that restrict the disclosure of data from the pre-trial investigation do not allow it.
“(…) We are unable to provide further information on due diligence and the information contained therein due to the ongoing pre-trial investigation into suspected trafficking, bribery, abuse and bribery by the Organized Crime Investigation Department and Corruption and the Special Investigation Service of the Attorney General’s Office “. In the answer provided by BNS.
The officer was fired on Monday.
The FNTT also noted that it pays special attention to ensuring the prevention of corruption and the disclosure of corrupt activities within the service.
“The Service operates in accordance with the highest standards of transparency and morality. Therefore, any activity that is contrary to the principles of transparency and fairness is not and will not be tolerated and those who have done so will be expelled from the service”, emphasized the FNTT.
The pretrial investigation mentioned by the service was announced by the Attorney General’s Office in May. FNTT official Nerijus Valatka, prosecutors Donatas Puzinas, Ugnius Vyčinas and Nerijus Marcinkevičius, lawyer Šarūnas Mickevičius, former FNTT Kaunas County Deputy Director and six other people were arrested on suspicion of corruption offenses at the time.
Such actions could have been carried out in particularly significant cases of waste of assets in Ūkio bankas, cases of the Credit Union.
The investigation was initiated after receiving information that the prosecutors of the General Prosecutor’s Office N. Marcinkevičius and U.Vyčinas, Prosecutor of the 2nd Prosecution Division of the Kaunas D. Puzinas Regional Prosecutor’s Office and Chief Investigator of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Vilnius FNTT Regional Board Meet informally with Kaunas Š lawyer. Mickevičius and discuss the course of the financial-economic pre-trial investigations at his disposal, the undisclosed data and the possibilities of taking procedural decisions in which the individuals unofficially represented by this lawyer are interested.
This is considered a material benefit or another in some cases.
In May, Attorney General Evaldas Pašilis said that “such actions could have been taken in particularly significant cases of waste of property in Ūkio bankas, in the Credit Union cases.”
The three prosecutors suspected of corruption were removed from office after an official inspection in mid-November, although D. Puzin and N. Marcinkevičius had already requested their resignation.
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