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In addition, the panel of judges found guilty of episodes of falsification of documents, for which the court of first instance had acquitted the prosecutor.
Following the verdict of the Court of Appeal verdict announced last week, the former prosecutor is now found guilty of all the acts for which he was brought to justice.
“The court found him guilty according to the full scope of the initial charge, confirmed the charges,” Vilma Vidugirienė, a prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Office, told BNS.
E. Šleinis has been sentenced to one year in prison, with his execution postponed for the same period. During the suspension of the sentence, the convicted person is obliged to continue working or, if he loses it, to register with the Employment Service.
According to the data in the case, E. Šleinius, the former prosecutor of the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Office, did not transfer one of his own pre-trial investigation materials to the pre-trial investigating institution from 2003 until his dismissal in 2013, and It did not make final procedural decisions, pre-trial investigations, or fail to refer cases to court.
It was also established that the then prosecutor of the capital E. Šleinius gave the agents who carried out the preliminary inquiries false information that procedural decisions had been taken, and signed statistical cards, in which they indicated false information about the alleged crime. decisions.
According to the indictment, to cover up these circumstances, E. Šleinius entered in the registry records of the Prosecutor’s Office that the materials of the pre-trial investigation had been returned to the investigating institutions, although he kept the materials of the previous investigation in his possession. possession.
Prosecutor E. Šleinius voluntarily resigned from the prosecution service in 2013. A pre-trial investigation was launched against him in 2016 following an official inspection.
When he resigned from the Prosecutor’s Office, according to the General Prosecutor’s Office, E. Šleinius did not return the materials of the pre-trial investigation under his control to the investigating institutions or to the Chief Prosecutor of the Division, but instead illegally removed them from the Prosecutor’s Office . the prosecutor’s office. Some of them, who were no longer working as prosecutors, returned E. Šleinius to the pre-trial investigation institutions in 2014 and 2016, and some of them were suspected of hiding or losing them.
E. Šleiniai did not fully admit his guilt, he said that while working as a prosecutor, he received pre-trial investigation materials for his inspection or procedural decision with attached letters, so he recalls, all the materials were registered in the office, brought by a clerk of the prosecutor’s office or a secretary.
According to the former prosecutor, after making procedural decisions or verifying the materials from the pre-trial investigation, the material was returned through the office or delivered to the court with an accompanying letter. He argued that there could have been cases where the case was not registered with the clerk in cases where the case was referred to court through an expedited procedure.
If the case with the attached letter received after the inspection was returned to the office, not through the office, but the case was returned directly to the hands on the officer’s arrival, the officer signed the cover letter sending the case to receive the case.
E. Šleinius stated that while working as a prosecutor, he did not take or conceal any case from the prosecutor’s office, and the service did not abuse him if the records indicated that the pre-trial investigation materials had been returned to the investigation room . research institutions.
He was fired from the prosecutor’s office and said that he had visited the pre-trial detention facilities several times (the Military Police, the then Lukiškės prison, the prison hospital) to ask how he was or to “have tea”, but that he did not pass on any case.
The courts that heard the case of the Attorney General stated that due to the unlawful action of E. Šleinius, the possibility of knowing the circumstances of a possible crime, identifying and prosecuting the guilty was lost, and the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage was lost. not compensated.
Furthermore, the failure to notify participants of decisions on the decisions made did not provide an opportunity to appeal illegal decisions to a higher prosecutor and a court in accordance with the law, and did not implement other rights of victims provided by law. not administer justice.
It was claimed that E. Šleinius created the conditions for possibly guilty persons to avoid responsibility, ignored the obligation of the prosecutor to protect the legitimate rights and interests of a person, society and the state in all cases, as well as the oath of the prosecutor to comply with the Constitution. and laws and perform their duties honestly.
The court ruling establishes that E. Šleinius “discredited the name of the prosecutor,” with his conduct undermined the authority of the prosecution towards the investigating officers and public confidence in the prosecution and the state judicial system, “he clearly demonstrated his attitude to the prosecutor. non-compliance with the laws and regulations “, caused significant moral damage to the Prosecutor’s Office and the State.
It is also pointed out that as a result of such actions by E. Šleinius, the State suffered significant non-pecuniary damage, such as the principles of the rule of law, impartiality, equality of persons before the law, legality, transparency and loyalty, the functions were violated distorted and the functions of the state institution, the prosecution, the operating principles and the discredited name of the Lithuanian prosecutor.
The former prosecutor of the capital, E. Šleinius, has previously investigated some important cases, for example, the case of Algirdas Paleckis, who rejected the Soviet aggression.
For the crimes committed, the former prosecutor was threatened with a fine, arrest or prison of up to 6 years.
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