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The investigation was initiated by the COEC 15 minutes after announcing in November last year that S.Svvernelio street was being paved with funds allocated by the Government. The Commission’s investigation lasted almost half a year, and its findings will be announced at the COEC meeting at 1 p.m.
On the eve, S. Skvernelis declared that he had no intention of attending the meeting.
The problem of street paving was solved in 9 days.
After the government redistributed the Highway Maintenance and Development Program (RDPP) reserve on October 30 last year, an additional 300,000 LTL was allocated for local roads in the Vilnius district. euros
This meeting was chaired by Prime Minister S. Skvernelis. The COEC investigated whether S. Skvernelis was not required to withdraw by law.
The document adopted by the Government did not mention Upės Street.
But, from where 15 minutes the collected data is visible to the naked eye, that the Vilnius district municipality was already preparing for this decision in advance.
The Vilnius District Municipal Council, which met on October 25, included in the list of streets to repair a section of Upės street that passes through the villages of Pasieniai and Smigliai.
Vilnius district municipality spokeswoman Jolanta Gulbinovič at the time 15 minutes He said that on October 22, the municipality requested additional funds for the district’s highways from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and with the government’s agreement to allocate part of the funds, work began on the Upės Street section.
If, according to the representative of the municipality, the ministry was contacted on October 22, and already three days later the council blessed the list of administered streets, the problem of Upės street was solved within nine days with additional funds allocated by the Government.
Upės Street has almost all the extra money allocated by the Government
300 thousand from the government. The municipality of the Vilnius district allocated 299,973 euros to the section of Upės street inhabited by S. Skvernelis.
The work was done quickly: on December 6, after visiting Smigli 15 minutes photographer We found already paved asphalt.
According to data provided by the Vilnius district municipality, the total length of Upės Street is 6 kilometers, the 1.7 km section is paved.
In 2018, the Prime Minister and his neighbors raised half of the amount for which 250 meters of Upės street were paved, the other half of the amount was assigned by the Municipality of the Vilnius District. So last year, the asphalt work on this section was carried out in both directions, 980 meters next to the Vilnius city – S.Svvernelis is transported to work on this section of the street, and 720 meters next to it. opposite – towards the village of Užlandžiai.
Questions about street paving
S. Skvernelis explained that he did not know that the Vilnius District Municipality would choose to pave the street where he lived with the funds allocated by the Government, and then he refused to answer questions on this matter, explaining that he had nothing to comment on.
Once upon a time, questions about the street angered the Prime Minister that interrupted the press conference.
The Prime Minister did not explain as honestly if he had not seen that he was being paved while driving on Upės Street and if he had any questions about what money he was making.
The Prime Minister’s explanations also raised additional concerns due to the fact that the Vilnius District Municipality acknowledged that it had decided to manage the street after receiving a series of complaints from the Department of Administrative Security that protects the Prime Minister.
True, the head of the department Rymantas Mockevičius 15 minutes He assured that he was not asked to pave the street, just to fix it.
R. Masiulis gave clues
Post 15 minutes The investigation caused a great scandal.
Former Transport and Communications Minister Rokas Masiulis, who was attacked by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the “peasants”, publicly argued that this was an attempt to prevent him from testifying at the COEC.
Luke April / 15min photo / Rock Masiulis
“By law I will have to tell the truth and I will tell the truth.” hints that you can know more about, which has been said on the subject before, published.
Before that, R. Masiulis had publicly said that he was not pressured by the Prime Minister to allocate funds for Upės Street.
“The COEC sent written questions, to which I replied in writing”, – testified before the commission on Wednesday 15 minutes R. Masiulis declared.
The street will be more paved
In February, the Vilnius District Municipality approved the Strategic Action Plan for 2020–2022, which plans to find 800,000 tons of asphalt for Upės Street, where Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis lives, within three years. EUR, this year – 200 thousand.
In April, BNS announced that another 143,000 LTL had been allocated for paving the Prime Minister’s residential street. euros Of these, 43 thousand. The Vilnius district government allocated 100,000 euros, another 100,000. EUR – Minister of Transport of the gravel road asphalting program.
The municipality of the Vilnius district explained the desire to continue the paving of the Upės street to guarantee the continuity of the works.
Street repairs started in 2018 after S.Skvernelis and its neighbors collected a small amount. 15 minutes then checkedCan all residents of the Vilnius district, after having contributed to the repair of their street, expect to continue managing it with state funds? The data provided by the district municipality showed, certainly not. In 2019, no streets in the Vilnius district saw such “continuity” except the Prime Minister.
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