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As the representative of the Supreme Court, Rimantė Kraulišė, informed BNS, that decision was made due to the identified material violations of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Last March, the Vilnius District Court found K. Strupas guilty of taking a bribe from a patient for an unspecified amount and awarded him 5,000. a fine of EUR. 4.5 thousand were given to the patient who gave the bribe. a fine of EUR.
Both K. Strupas and the woman accused of bribery appealed against this verdict and the Vilnius Regional Court acquitted them both in October last year, considering that the accused had not been proven.
Gintaras Dzedulionis, who chaired the panel of judges, later stated that although there was communication between the defendants, there was no record in the file that they had agreed to a reward or that the patient had actually delivered a bribe.
The case also recorded that the patient gave an envelope and a paper to the doctor, but neither the contents of the envelope nor the paper were unequivocally identified and proven.
The Vilnius Regional Court panel of judges, which examined the complaints, re-examined the evidence in the case and, in addition, an expert was interviewed on video.
K. Strupas was removed from the position of director of the Santara clinics at his request in 2018, when he was suspected in a large-scale pre-trial investigation into possible abuse and large-scale bribery and bribery at the Santara clinics.
In May 2019, the investigation against K. Strupas in the abuse case was terminated and he was charged with bribery, which was investigated in a separate pre-trial investigation.
The investigation into large-scale bribery and abuse at the Santara clinics continues at the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
The decision of the Supreme Court is final and unappealable.
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