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According to the judicial representative Lina Nemeikaitė, 145.2 thousand people were detained. 3 million euros from Profarma. EUR 542 thousand – Bona Diagnosis, more than EUR 158.3 Pigcyon EUR – Grains of Ruan LV.
The court ruled that the need for interim measures was due to the risk that a possible decision in favor of the prosecution could not be enforced and that state funds that could have been misused in the disputed transactions would not be recovered.
According to L. Nemeikaitė, the court also assumed that in the future the companies could take actions that would make it difficult to return the funds and noted that the prosecutor’s action is related to the public interest.
Last week, the Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit to annul and invalidate the transactions concluded in relation to the acquisition of rapid COVID-19 EXPRESS tests and grant the state more than 4,142,600 euros from companies.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the contract was awarded for overpayments for undisclosed negotiations, so the objective is to recover the part of the contract value that prosecutors consider unreasonable.
According to law enforcement data, the sales contract was concluded after the public procurement was carried out through unannounced negotiations and was concluded in violation of the principle of transparency enshrined in the Public Procurement Law.
It was established that the norm established in the Public Procurement Law that funds destined to the purchase of goods, services or works must be used rationally was also violated during the contracting and execution of the contract.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the National Public Health Laboratory and the company signed a contract for 510 thousand. acquisition of tests for approximately 6 million. EUR, but no other offers were evaluated, no supplier was found who could offer a better price.
Estimating that the evidence was purchased roughly three times as expensive as its actual value, public interest prosecutors are asking the court to order the companies to pay more than $ 4 million. euros.
The pre-trial investigation into the purchase of the COVID-19 rapid tests is ongoing and the anticipated procedural steps are being taken. There are currently six people under suspicion.
The investigation is carried out by officials of the Special Tasks Board of the Financial Crimes Investigation Service, and is organized and controlled by prosecutors from the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department of the Attorney General’s Office and the Third Division of the Attorney General’s Office. Vilnius Regional.
It was previously reported that the complaints in this investigation were made to the former Deputy Minister of Health Lina Jaruševičienė and the representatives of the Profarma company, the head of the company Bona diagnosis Redas Laukis.
Then-Deputy Prime Minister Lukas Savickas and then-Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’ health advisor Jonas Kairys were questioned as special witnesses in this pre-trial investigation.
A court ruling on interim measures can be appealed to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal within seven days.
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