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The former party secretary and member of the Seimas Rimas Antanas Ručius was sentenced by the court to four years in prison, the execution of which was postponed for two years.
On Wednesday, the Panevėžys Regional Court awarded more than 112 thousand in a business impact case. 279 thousand euros and seized more than 279 thousand euros from the Order and Justice party. EUR, and sentenced the people involved in the case to probation, and one defendant, businessman Rolandas Skaisgirys, was fully acquitted.
The party was found guilty of influence peddling, operating in a group of accomplices, squandering assets and falsifying documents.
The former party secretary and member of the Seimas Rimas Antanas Ručius was sentenced by the court to four years in prison, the execution of which was postponed for two years.
He was found guilty of the impact of the trade: taking bribes from businessmen P.Kačerginskis and G.Rakauskas, falsifying documents and wasting property while operating in a group of accomplices.
The businessman Peisach Kačerginskis was sentenced by the court to three years in prison, the execution of which was also suspended for two years.
The businessmen Giedrius Rakauskas and Vytautas Banys, accused in the case, were sentenced to a year and a half in prison, postponing their execution for a period of two years.
The businesswoman Justinas Garliauskas was sentenced to two years in prison with a postponement of the same period.
G.Rakauskas and P.Kačerginskis were found guilty of influence peddling, waste of assets, falsification of documents and fraudulent accounting, V. Banys and J.Garliauskas, for the same crimes, except influence peddling.
The court also acquitted the accused businessman R. Skaisgiris for having delivered a bribe to the “Order and Justice” party, because it did not find that he had committed acts that had the characteristics of a crime.
All those on probation are also obliged not to leave their place of residence during the probation and to pay a contribution of 753 euros to the Victims Fund.
At the end of 2014, a pre-trial investigation of the case was launched by the Special Investigation Service, following allegations that in the fall of 2013, private companies had covered part of the costs of the Buy Elephant event sponsored by the Order and Party party. Justice. .
Prosecutors said more than 350,000 items may have been obtained through bribes or illegally squandered property. Orden y Justicia used 1.2 million euros (1.2 million LTL) to publicize its activities.
Bribes Accepted for Public Procurement Assistance
The former member of Seimas RARučys was found guilty in the case of promising to influence the then officials of the Ministries of the Interior and Environment to create exceptional conditions to win the public tenders organized for the specified companies.
The party was also found guilty of promising to influence Interior Ministry officials to help designated companies obtain public acquisitions under the Ministry’s Department of Economics and Asset Management and a state-owned company.
“It is unequivocally proven that P. Kačerginskis and G. Rakauskas, according to the then responsible party secretary, agreed to give a bribe and gave a bribe for the help of R. Rutis to win the acquisitions of the company represented by P. Kačerginskis and G. Rakauskas in the Ministry of the Interior, “said the judge who examined the A.Gaputis case.
According to the judge, the prosecution stated that RARučys helped the entrepreneurs win four tenders, but the case lacks evidence of one of the acquisitions.
It was also found that another bribe was given for organizing the signing of the purchase contract already won.
Bribes are used for publicity after falsifying documents.
According to the data of the investigation carried out by the STT, the advertising services of “Orden y Justicia” were paid by means of the transfer of funds to the accounts of the companies managed by another entrepreneur, Justinas Garliauskas, following the instructions of the entrepreneurs.
According to the forces of order, in this way, for the benefit and interest of the party, around 151 thousand could be accepted. bribery in euros.
During the pre-trial investigation, officials established that the party, acting through RARučis, had created an entrepreneur Vytautas Banis to use known false documents to transfer funds to the account of the company run by J. Garliauskas.
The goal could have been to pay for the advertising services provided to the party and waste the company’s 140,000. assets worth EUR.
According to Judge A.Gaputis, the case proved that J.Gariauskas forged documents and fraudulently handled accounting and the fact that RARučys incited V. Banis to violate the law.
“Buy an elephant” is not a bribe
According to Judge Algirdas Gaputis, who examined the case, the prosecution claimed that R. Skaisgirys had handed over the organization “Buy Elephant” to the party as a bribe, but no evidence had been provided.
Both RARučys and “Order and Justice” were acquitted due to the accusations made against them of accepting a bribe from businessman R. Skaisgiris and fraudulent accounting.
“At this point in the case, there is no evidence that such a bribe was delivered at all; there is no evidence that the concert was organized to benefit the party from its publicity and, in fact, that concert was organized for what it was stated as the purpose “to support the Kaunas Zoo,” the judge said.
“The fact that the then president of the party, Rolandas Paksas, was appointed patron of the concert, cannot be considered a bribe in this case, because R. Paksas himself paid to be named patron when announcing this event on television”, he is stressed.
Last fall, the prosecutor supporting the state indictment proposed in court to allocate 564 thousand LTL to the “Order and Justice” party accused of influence peddling. a fine of EUR. He also requested the confiscation of 359 thousand from the party currently in liquidation. euros.
Former party secretary RARučius was sentenced to four years in prison, postponed for two and a half years and 18.8 thousand. EUR fines.
Entrepreneurs P.Kačerginskis, G.Rakauskas, V. Banis and J.Garliauskas were sentenced to two years in prison, their execution was also postponed for two years and P.Kačerginskis and G.Rakauskas were fined 45,000 each. . EUR, V. Banis and J.Garliauskas – 18.8 euros Pig.
The prosecutor offered to allocate almost 56.5 thousand LTL to businessman Rolandas Skaisgiris. a fine of EUR.
The defendants in this corruption case denied their guilt and marveled at the police actions.
This court ruling can be appealed to the Lithuanian Court of Appeal.
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