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Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis commissioned a comprehensive investigation in May after allegations of corruption were filed against three prosecutors: Nerijus Marcinkevičius and Ugnis Vyčinas, prosecutors in the Public Prosecutor’s Office Department.
“It examined more than 100 different pre-trial investigations controlled by prosecutors. During the inspection, two discontinued preliminary investigations were resumed, after three preliminary investigations revealed indications of other criminal offenses for which the investigation had not been carried out, the data was instructed to verify these data and take the appropriate procedural decisions, “said Elena Martinonienė, representative of the Attorney General’s Office.
According to her, the inspection also revealed “other deficiencies in the process, its organization and control,” which led to improvements in the systems of periodic inspections, specialized training and certification of prosecutors.
“It was also decided to reorganize the 2nd Division of the Kaunas District Prosecutor’s Office, it was assessed as an excessive structural unit and to establish the 3rd Division of the Prosecutor’s Office in the Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office,” said the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office.
In May, the Attorney General’s Office announced an ongoing pre-trial investigation into suspected trafficking, bribery, abuse and bribery. At that time, a total of 11 people were arrested, including N. Marcinkevičius, U. Vyčinas, D. Puzinas, Nerijus Valatka, Chief Investigator of the Vilnius Regional Criminal Investigation Division of the Financial Crimes Investigation Service, Šarūnas Mickevičius , a practicing lawyer in Kaunas, and six other private individuals.
According to prosecutors, the detained officials, acting independently of each other, met informally with Š. Mickiewicz and discussed the course of the financial-economic pre-trial investigations at his disposal, the undisclosed data and the possibilities of making procedural decisions in which individuals are unofficially represented by this lawyer.
This is considered a material benefit or another in some cases.
Attorney General E. Pašilis later stated that “such actions could have been carried out in particularly significant cases of waste of property in Ūkio bankas, in the Credit Union cases.”
According to BNS, during the conduct of this pre-trial investigation, another prosecutor from the 2nd Prosecution Division of the Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office was questioned as a special witness.
E. Martinonienė told BNS that several dozen witnesses were interviewed in the investigation, including persons with the status of special witnesses, but in order not to hinder the course of the investigation, they claimed that they could not provide more detailed information.
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