The former assistant to P. Gražulis says the Seimas member took the salary he was paid

She gave such testimony during an interrogation in a pre-trial investigation for corruption crimes, in which P. Pachomovaitė herself, the then head of the Food and Veterinary Service Jonas Milius, the then CEO of the company Judex Rimantas Kičas, they were suspects a few years ago.

The suspicions of most of the people were finally eliminated, only this week were the accusations of abuse made against P. Gražulis.

On May 29 last year, the Kaunas District Court closed the separate case of this investigation, in which the former head of Judex, R. Kičas, was charged with fraudulent accounting. By court order, he was acquitted on bail because he pleaded completely guilty.

In this court ruling, the testimony of P. Pachomovaitė was made public.

P.Pachomovaitė has worked as a commercial director in a frozen food production company since 2012, and P. Gražulis helped her get this job. Since 2014, P. Gražulis has also employed her as his assistant at Seimas, and she worked in this position until November 2016.

A member of the Seimas, BNS, initially said that he did not remember if he had used the bank card of the then adviser, then said that he had not used “any card” and declined to comment and ended the conversation.

Requested bank cards trumpam

The Kaunas District Court ruling states that during the pre-trial investigation P.Pachomovaitė told the police that in the fall of 2015 P. Gražulis asked him to hand over a bank card with which it was possible to withdraw money.

According to P.Pachomovaitė, P.Gražulis did not specify the purpose for which he needs the card, he only said that someone needs money.

For nearly a year, PG deducted his salary from his account, the court ruled.

“As the relationship was close at the time, PG asked to hand over the PG card to the card, which could be used to withdraw the salary of the assistant transferred to the account at DNB Bank, believing that he would only return temporarily and quickly,.) For almost one year, PG deducted his salary from his account, ”the court ruled.

P.Pachomovaitė stated that after that he started trying to withdraw the money as soon as possible, because he had another card linked to the same bank account. According to her, P. Gražulis did not blame him for that.

The former parliamentary aide also said that he had deposited the transferred cash into the same account for about a year and was handed over to him by the director of Judex R. Kičas, which P. Gražulis collected with a card.

“She does not know why and for what purpose the CDR asked the PG for money. The CDR did not say, did not listen,” said the ruling.

P.Pachomovaitė told law enforcement that he did not know where R.Kičas took the money, which he transferred to P.Gražulis, whether it was companies or his personal funds. He stated that he did not remember the exact amount that he had deposited into his account.

The woman said that she did not like the fact that P. Gražulis used his card not only in Lithuania, but also abroad, when he was not in other countries at the time, so in the long run he told R. Kiča not to transfer any more money, to which he responded silently.

She also told law enforcement that she had lived with P. Gražulis from 2013 to 2015, but claimed that she later avoided communicating with him, “because he was very inclined to control and guide her, and felt a lot of stress communicating with him.” .

He thought Judex belonged to P. Gražulis

P.Pachomovaitė told P. Gražulis that he had met in the summer of 2011 in one of the cafés in Kaunas and had been meeting him for about a year, communicating by phone.

Throughout the communication, P. Gražulis offered to work for the Judex company, claiming that the company belonged to his friend.

In April 2012, P.Pachomovaitė was employed as a secretary at Judex, and a year and a half later, when the position of commercial director became vacant, she was persuaded to take up this position.

“He did not dare to assume these responsibilities, but PG said he would help and teach. When he started working, he realized that PG is the informal owner of this company, because he participated in the meetings that were held in the company, when They resolved important issues for the company, he walked through the production workshops and was interested in everything, ”the court document reads.

P.Pachomovaitė stated that the parliamentarian was interested in everything related to Judex activities: “starting with technology, ending with product recipes and greeting cards.”

He also said that the CEO of the company R.Kičas had instructed him to contact P. Gražulis with various matters related to the activities of the company.

The Seimas Chancellery issued a reprimand

In September 2016, the Seimas Chancellery reprimanded Fr. Pachomovaitė for working as an assistant at the same time as Judex, although he had not received permission for other work.

According to a press release issued by the Seimas at the time, the sanction was imposed “by the authority of the Seimas discredited for its actions and for raising doubts about the work procedure organized in the Seimas Chancellery.”

During the inspection, it was also stated that P.Pachomovaitė was unable to work in another position from November 2015 to May 2016 and throughout the summer of 2016, as he worked at the Chancellery of the Seimas with 1.5 positions.

Until November 2015, P. Gražulis’s assistant worked part-time at Seimas, since the autumn of that year she began working full-time, and her salary amounted to almost 744 euros per month.

In the spring of 2016, P.Pachomovaitė worked part-time as an assistant to P.Gražulis, and half as a rapporteur for the Seimas “Order and Justice” faction, which was then headed by P. Gražulis.

After P. Gražulis lost the group’s senior position, P.Pachomovaitė lost the group’s rapporteur position, but since June 2016, she has been assigned a 1.5-year workload as a parliamentary assistant and a salary of 1,115 euros.

P. Gražulis does not remember if he used the card

In the aforementioned pre-trial investigation, P. Gražulis was interviewed twice, in the summer of 2016 and 2017. On both occasions he refused to testify, initially claiming that the investigation data went to the media, and later affirm that the case was political and that it was being persecuted, with the aim of dealing politically.

When BNS contacted the MP this week, he said he did not remember whether he used P.Pachomovaitė’s bank card.

“Look (…) I took it, I gave it away, she took it, she already forgot those things here as they were,” P. Gražulis told BNS on Wednesday.

A little later, she claimed that she had not used “any cards” and said that P. Pachomovaitė “received more money from him than she had.”

At the end of the conversation, saying that he would not comment because he was not familiar with the former counselor’s testimony, he hung up the phone.

In December last year, at the request of the Attorney General Evaldas Pašilis, the Seimas revoked P. Gražulis’ legal immunity and this week the Special Investigation Service issued complaints of abuse to him.

According to the Authority, there is sufficient data to believe that P. Gražulis sought and received property benefits from Judex from May 2015 to February 2017, acting illegally in the interests of the company and seeking to avoid being banned from exporting products due to the bacteria. Listeria found in their products. to Russia.

“It is believed that with such actions a member of the Seimas systematically used, for a long time, his status and influence as a representative of the highest authority, undermined the prestige of his functions, the authority of the Seimas and a member of the Seimas, violated the consecrated principles in the Constitution and broke the oath of the Seimas. The state suffered significant moral damage, “says the STT report.

Prosecutors previously said that while helping the company, Judex politicians had repeatedly called Lithuanian and Russian officials, gone to Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region to influence Russian officials, urged businessmen to give bribes, and asked to rape. current procedures.

The investigation prior to the trial of the case is carried out by officials of the Central Investigation Board of the STT, the investigation is controlled by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Department of Investigation of Organized Crime and Corruption of the Attorney General’s Office.

In this pre-trial investigation, P. Gražulis is the only suspect. At the beginning of the investigation, accusations were brought against six people, including the former head of the State Food and Veterinary Service Jonas Milius, P. Pachomovaitė, R. Kičas.

In the case of the Judex manager, the case was separated and the suspicions of the remaining persons were withdrawn.

The Penal Code stipulates that a person can be punished with a fine or imprisonment of up to seven years for abuse.