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He said that he was not interested in who the parliamentarian needed the money for and transferred it to a person not officially affiliated with Judex, as P. Gražulis had a joint farm with Patricia Pachomovaitė, the commercial director of Judex at the time.
“As much as I asked, I transferred. It is important to me that at the end of the month the money is paid or returned,” R. Kičas said in court Thursday.
He testified in the criminal case of Seimas member P. Gražulis on abuse.
Asked for money
The court read the material that various amounts, from 100 to 1000 euros, a total of 1800 euros, were transferred at the request of P.Gražulis.
According to R. Kičas, the money was transferred not only at the request of P. Gražulis, but also at the request of P. Pachomovaitė, and he was not interested in who needed those funds.
According to the witness, part of the funds went to the needs of the company, part was used as a kind of loan to its employees.
“She returned the money, the company was not hurt,” said the former CEO of Judex.
When asked by the judge if it is normal for someone outside the company to ask for money, R. Kičas admitted that this is not normal. He said he did not know who was allowed to ask for the money.
The court also announced that Judex had repeatedly paid tickets for a member of the Seimas and its satellites to London, Kiev and Stockholm in 2015-2016.
R.Kičas also confirmed that P. Gražulis actually used the Lexus car purchased by Judex. According to him, the car was bought at the request of the shareholder of the Sigitas Mačiulis company, P. Gražulis arrived with it and was ordered to rent it to SIA Dozhas, who sublet it to the parliamentarian.
The witness also claimed that he could not explain how the Judex fuel card got onto the policy. According to him, the company had two fuel cards, one owned by him and the other by P.Pachomovaitė.
He called his actions regarding the division of the company’s assets a mistake, lamenting that due to the heavy workload he was unable to delve into everything.
R. Kičas has been found guilty by the Kaunas District Court of processing fraudulent accounting precisely for the aforementioned cases.
I got calls from J. Milius
Gediminas Pridotkas, director of the National Institute for Veterinary and Food Risk Assessment in 2015-2016, and Adolfas Rinkūnas, former director of the Biržai State Veterinary and Food Service, were also questioned at the Vilnius Regional Court on Thursday.
They testified that Jonas Milius, the former head of the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS), was interested in investigations related to the frozen food production company Judex.
G. Pridotkas said that J. Milius was interested to know if he knew any of the heads of the Food and Veterinary Service in the Krasnodar region of Russia. When G. Pridotka replied in the affirmative, J. Milius did not ask him for anything.
A. Rinkūnas said that he had received a call from J. Milius when his subordinates found an improperly packaged fish in the Norfa store in November 2015; no allergens were identified on the label. The packer for this fish was Judex.
According to A. Rinkūnas, the inspection material was sent to the SFVS, its Kaunas and Vilnius units, and the distribution of products was suspended.
“The director called after a while and asked what you found there and where you found it. That’s the end, “said the former head of the Biržai State Food and Veterinary Service.
Both said that they knew P. Gražulis only from television screens, they never communicated with him.
The Vilnius Regional Court plans to continue the examination of witnesses in the criminal case of P. Gražulis on September 27.
From May 2015 to February 2017, the Attorney General’s Office accused P. Gražulis of abusing his position as a member of the Seimas, as a result of which the state suffered damages.
According to the case, the parliamentarian may have sought and received financial benefits from a private company, Judex, acting in the interests of that company and impermissibly interfering with the activities of other public officials in Lithuania and Russia. Also, according to prosecutors, he offered to give money to Russian officials, asking them to act illegally in the interests of the company.
In 2015, Russian officials discovered Listeria bacteria in Judex frozen food products exported to Russia.
The indictment states that the Seimas member helped handle the Judex-related issues: he repeatedly called Lithuanian and Russian officials, asked for bribes, and asked to violate existing procedures.
A member of the Seimas categorically denies the blame.
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