Grill London and a famous broker tax evasion case: what do we know? The | Deal



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News portal 15 minutes provides known data on this case, which is now at an early stage of the investigation. Authorities say more than a million euros in cash were found during the search.

A.Lavrinavičius

The Kaunas District Court allowed Andrius Lavrinavičius, one of the managers of the Grill London restaurant chain and other restaurants owned by the same owners, to be arrested for a month.

He is arrested on suspicion of being able to commit new crimes while at liberty and obstructing the investigation. It is true that the prosecutor leading the investigation, Laimonas Petreikis, requested to arrest the suspect for a maximum period of three months.

Erik Ovcharenko / 15min photo / Andrius Lavrinavičius

Erik Ovcharenko / 15min photo / Andrius Lavrinavičius

According to Rekvizitai.lt, the manager of the Grill London restaurant is the company Panoramos projekts. A.Lavrinavičius is one of the shareholders of this company, and worked as a director from June 2016 to January 2017.

A.Lavrinavičius is indicated in the “Registration Center” as manager or representative of 18 companies related to the network of public catering establishments.

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Fiscal 15 minutes He declined to reveal the suspect’s name, but said the suspect was “one of the organization’s most important people”. The Kaunas District Court declared that A. Lavrinavičius is the royal administrator of eleven companies.

Erik Ovcharenko / 15min photo / Grill London restaurant

Erik Ovcharenko / 15min photo / Grill London restaurant

A. Lavrinavičius is suspected of providing incorrect income, profit or property data when the amount of the tax exceeds LTL 37.5 thousand. Euros Eight years in prison are threatened by such a crime.

He has so far refused to testify with the police, but denies guilt.

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E. Staponkus

E. Staponkus is currently the head of the ES Motorsport motorsports club and is the vice president of the Lithuanian Motorsports Federation.

He was also arrested for a month on the grounds that he could commit new crimes or obstruct the investigation.

Team Photo / Ernestas Staponkus

Team Photo / Ernestas Staponkus

E. Staponkas was accused of two articles of the Penal Code: for the incorrect presentation of data on income, profits or properties and fraudulent accounting.

The suspect in the E. Staponkus case has been convicted multiple times, but all convictions have disappeared.

A prominent runner was convicted in 2013 of forcibly removing a man from a car by pretending to be a police officer in Telšiai and handcuffing him to find out about the allegedly stolen catalysts sold.

For this, E. Staponkas was fined 3,900 at the time (now around 1,140 euros). He was convicted along with his common Arnold Kamantauskas.

Ernestas Staponkus

Ernestas Staponkus

In 2011 E. Staponkus was convicted of embezzling high-value property and falsifying documents.

At the time, while running the public Autocross institution, he received almost a million litas in support of the activities, but collected all the money received and used it for his own needs.

In the last case, E. Staponkus agreed to give evidence to the police. “It claims that the transfers are based on civil relationships and are legal,” he said. 15 minutes Prosecutor L. Petreikis said.

Research data

Authorities suspect that A.Lavrinavičius, with the help of E. Stapankus, may not have paid hundreds of thousands of euros in taxes through a form of support.

During the investigation, it was established that A.Lavrinavičius and E.Staponkus transferred more than 418 thousand LTL as support to the account of the sports association from the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2019. euros

Photo by Irmantas Gelūnas / 15min / Money

Photo by Irmantas Gelūnas / 15min / Money

According to the researchers, in this way A.Lavrinavičius sought to avoid at least 125 thousand. taxes arising from suspicions of incorrect notification of aid. Based on data available for law enforcement, the support could be refined and partially reimbursed, and E. Staponkus also received financial benefits for a suspicious tax evasion service.

E. Staponkus is also accused of deliberately conducting a fraudulent accounting of the association under his leadership in May 2019 to hide the company’s assets, income, expenses and profits. He is also suspected of transferring more than $ 200,000 to a US company in Florida. for services not related to the company’s activities.

He is suspected of increasing the company’s costs so unreasonably to avoid nearly 35,000. euro taxes

Prosecutor L. Petreikis 15 minutes He said a total of a dozen companies may have participated in the tax evasion schemes, and the investigation will take time.

“There is a lot of data, a lot of companies. To complete the investigation, it will be necessary to carry out an investigation into their financial and economic activities,” said the official.



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