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“After considering it, today I issued resolutions on both requests. Two orders were made, I partially complied with the prosecutor’s request and it was decided to detain the two suspects in custody, detained for a month, “Judge Violeta Miceikienė told reporters on Wednesday.
Both suspects were asked to be arrested for three months. According to the judge, the court recognized that the suspects could obstruct proceedings and commit new crimes.
“According to certain data, the prosecutor stated that from the moment of the arrest, these items, that is, computer equipment, are really hidden and destroyed. On that basis, it was decided to issue an arrest and a second plea: that he would commit crimes, “he said.
According to the judge, there is some evidence that the suspects received a high enough income for the crime and that this could have been their source of livelihood.
The suspects do not admit their fault.
“It just caught our eye then. I think they did nothing criminal,” the judge said.
“One of the testimonies of the suspects gave nothing, the other suspect, in his opinion, what happened, presented his certain version that it is not a criminal act,” said V. Miceikienė.
According to BNS, A. Lavrinavičius, head of the Grill London restaurant chain, and Ernestas Staponkus, vice president of the Lithuanian Federation of Motor Sports and head of the ESmotorsport motorsports club, were arrested on suspicion of shadow activities and evasion of taxes.
Ernestas Staponkus
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The Secretary General of the Federation, Tadas Vasiliauskas, told BNS that the Federation is not included in the aforementioned police investigation.
A. Lavrinavičius is also reported as the head of the Grovitas company, BNS contacted Gilbert Kinderevičius, a lawyer at the JurisConsultus law firm, after making contacts available to the public.
When asked if he cooperated with A. Lavrinavičius, he said that this was the client’s and lawyer’s secret.
“Mine is a secret between a lawyer and a client and I cannot comment on anything,” said the lawyer.
He also stated that he could not comment on whether A. Lavrinavičius was currently detained and whether he had been charged.
“I cannot comment on anything at the moment, a pre-trial investigation is underway,” said G. Kinderevičius.
Police announced Wednesday that they had cleared a catering company and a sports association believed to have become suspicious activity to evade taxes.
According to police data, the head of the public restoration network and the president of another institution, by prior agreement, transferred more than 400 thousand LTL from the companies of the restoration network to the account of another institution in support of January 1 from 2017 to December 31, 2019. euros
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