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“It is suspected that the people who may have committed the criminal act may have acted from a foreign country,” Simona Snitkaitė-Kareivienė, spokesperson for the Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office, told BNS this week.
“An intensive process is being carried out, data is being collected to know all the circumstances,” he said.
According to her, there are no suspects in the investigation at this time, nor have Mayor Nerijus Cesiulis or other city leaders been interviewed.
“The mayor and other city leaders were not interviewed during the investigation because they did not take any action regarding the money transfer,” said a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office.
In early February, the Alytus City Council announced that it had recovered most of the money transferred to the wrong recipient: 150 thousand euros.
The mayor of the city N. Cesiulis said that now “everything is being done” than the remaining 37 thousand. it would also go back to the municipal accounts.
Alytus County Police launched an investigation into possible fraud in early December, and four city employees were interviewed as witnesses.
The municipality itself addressed the police with a statement.
The municipality had to transfer money for the work done to manage the city’s roundabouts to the Latvian company ACB, but did not receive it, the money was transferred to a modified account registered in Spain.
As all the necessary details had been provided, no suspicions were raised against municipal officials and more than 187,000 were transferred to the specified account in Spain for the work performed. Cesiulis wrote on Facebook in early February.
Acquisition of high-value foreign properties is fraudulently punishable by imprisonment for up to eight years.
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