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“It is suspected that the medical institution had hidden income: according to preliminary data, the unaccounted amount may amount to around one million euros,” Dalia Pocienė, chief prosecutor of the Klaipėda Regional Prosecutor’s Office, told a press conference on Thursday.
“This is a closed corporation” Fertility Clinic “,” he said.
According to the prosecutor, after about fifty searches, half a million euros in cash were found, nine people were arrested, including managers, a total of 12 people were suspected.
According to data from the Registry Center, the shareholders of the Fertility Clinic are Algė Ivaškevičė, Virginijus Diržauskas, Algirdas Usonis and Dov Feldberg.
This clinic advertises on its website that it is the largest infertility treatment institution in Lithuania, offering the largest number of assisted reproductive procedures in the country. The clinic, which has been in operation since 2000, has branches in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda. It is directed by A. Usonis.
Those responsible for the institution were arrested
According to the prosecutor, the suspects interviewed are in contact with law enforcement.
“Nine people were arrested. They remain in detention at this time. 12 people have been granted suspect status and interviews and other procedural actions are currently being carried out,” said D. Pocienė.
According to Raimondas Vaitkevičius, Deputy Chief of the Klaipėda County Main Police Station, the company director, the directors and the persons responsible for finance and accounting were arrested.
The pre-trial investigation is conducted in relation to possible criminal acts committed by the company administrators and others in connection with the fraudulent financial accounting of the company.
According to the police, the pre-trial investigation included searches at the company’s facilities in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaip, da, the homes, vehicles and other places of the detainees.
“The raids were carried out in a private medical services company and in the residences and cars of its employees and managers,” said the prosecutor.
According to currently available data, some 500,000 people were found during the search. as well as various accounting and other documents, computer supports and other relevant elements for the investigation.
According to the police, the data collected suggests that in order to avoid taxes and act in accordance with a preconceived criminal plan, company managers instructed responsible employees not to include part of the patients’ income in company accounts.
“The money received from the patients was not accounted for and according to the data we have, the owners and managers of the company misappropriated the money and the wages were paid,” said R. Vaitkevičius.
A large force of officers worked
It is also suspected that these deliberately incorrect data on income, profits or assets were subsequently recorded when submitting declarations to the State Tax Inspection.
Possible harm to the State will be identified at a later stage of the investigation.
“The country that suffered the most was the tax-free state,” said a police spokesman.
A pre-trial investigation is currently underway for the company’s fraudulent accounting, complicity and complicity in accounting, misrepresentation of income, earnings, assets, or their use and misuse.
The pre-trial investigation is led and organized by the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Klaipėda Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office, led by officers from the Economic Crimes Investigation Board of the Criminal Police, together with the Bureau of Criminal Police, Kaunas County Police Economic Crimes Investigation Board, State Tax Inspection and Financial Crimes Investigation Service.
In total, about 100 officials and specialists participated in these actions of the process.
“The search lasted practically until the morning of last night,” said a representative of the Klaipeda police.
The steps in the process are still ongoing.
“The agents have been working practically all day since yesterday and the process continues today,” the prosecutor said.
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