After the STT investigation – scandalous facts: they received a salary from the state, although they did not work



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On Thursday, the Vilnius Regional Court began to explain how and why state funds were wasted: Judge Julita Dabulskytė-Raizgienė opened a criminal case for misappropriation of property, falsification of documents and abuse of official position.

Prosecutors who referred the case to the Ministry of Agriculture under the Ministry of Agriculture have filed charges against the Deputy Director of the Aidas Adomaitis Service, former Chief of the Finance and Accounting Division Gina Gajauskiene, former Chief of the Indre Šidlauskiene Service and Chief of the Division Legal and Personal Emilina Masil.

Two people have been prosecuted and fictitiously employed in the civil service: Valentina Svobodina and Jonas Paulavičius.

As the case may be, Ms. Svobodina was initially employed as a specialist in the Šilavotas subdivision (Prienai district) of the Inland Waters and Aquaculture Division of the Fisheries Service, and was later transferred to the post of senior specialist in the Division of International Affairs and Market.

At the time, J. Paulavičius was working in the Laukysta subdivision of the Fish Reproduction Department (Kaišiadorys district).

Fictitious public officials who were fictitiously employed and not actually performing any tasks received not only wages but also allowances for their work, and compensation was also paid for unused licenses when they were fired from the Service account. Fishing.

According to officials, in three years, when employees were paid, more than 45,000 were paid to the state. EUR. The Fisheries Service requested that this amount be awarded to the guilty parties.

According to the data from the pre-trial investigation, V. Svobodina and J. Paulavičius, who fictitiously worked in 2014-2017, had to hand over the money received to the then director of the Fisheries Service I. Šidlauskienė and his deputy A. Adomaitis. Yes, according to prosecutors, they not only falsified documents, but also misappropriated state funds.

„2014 m. The Deputy Director of the Fishing Service, who at that time was acting Director, was fictitiously recruiting a person for the Fishing Service, with the aim of disposing of the goods entrusted to him, belonging to the Fishing Service and working in a group of associates with two other staff members at the time. he did not perform any function and gave them the salary received, the prosecution reported. – 2015 August. the man was fired. In 2015-2016, under the new director of the service, two people were fictitiously recruited, one of whom was hired again. They were fired in 2017. August. “

According to prosecutors, the heads of the Fisheries Service and two other public officials, knowing that, in fact, two people did not perform any job function in the service, falsified documents regarding their transfer to other positions, gave them salary supplements and other benefits, which were then withdrawn from them.

“For their deliberate actions, they acted against the interests of the Fisheries Service, falsified and used genuine documents, and misappropriated foreign property entrusted to them, belonging to the Fisheries Service,” prosecutors said, undermining the authority of the civil service. and the Fishing Service. the unrestrained arbitrariness of the employees, demonstrated the attitude of non-compliance with the laws and other legal acts, as a result of which the Property Service and the state suffered significant damages to property and non-property.

The pre-trial investigation began in 2017. September, when then-Minister of Agriculture Bronius Markauskas submitted a request to the STT after an internal inspection by the Fisheries Service.



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