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According to Artūras Karpalovas, Chief Prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Šiauliai Regional Prosecutor’s Office, in this case a total of one legal entity was indicted: the pharmaceutical company Valentis pharma and 11 natural persons.
“Several doctors have pleaded guilty to bribery, helped pretrial investigative officers uncover the plan and the acts committed, and … have been granted the appropriate bail release decisions. We are talking about it. than 77 doctors here, “said A. Karpalov at the press conference.
Five company employees were also acquitted, who pleaded guilty and helped uncover crimes.
According to the prosecutor, about 65,000 were recovered during the pre-trial investigation. EUR, paid about 3.5 thousand. fines and around 40 thousand. contributions to the Crime Victims Fund.
“I think that before the case ends, it is a really good result, because the state budget has been recharged by more than 100,000. euros, ”he said.
Vaidas Pupelis, the director of the STT Šiauliai Board, stated that the managers of the company operating in the organized group could agree with doctors from Lithuanian cities and districts to recommend patients for illegal payments and then inject their products.
According to him, the preparations are associated with the treatment of joint diseases.
According to law enforcement, in 2014-2015, a total of more than 74,000 bribes could be transferred under this scheme. euros.
“The amount of the bribes, whose value ranged from 15 euros to 102 euros (…), depended on the device purchased by the patient and the method of purchase,” said V. Pupelis.
According to the head of the STT board Šiauliai, the amount of the bribe was included in the price paid by the patients.
“Depending on the product, I would pay 140-150 or 600 litas (…) if you talk about that more expensive product, if it costs 600 litas, then to the doctor, depending on the acquisition method and it was – from 250 to 350 litas”, he says V. Bean.
He also noted that doctors’ income varied based on how patients bought their medications – from a doctor, manager, or pharmacy.
The pre-litigation investigation also revealed that the company’s employees repackaged the products at the end of their useful life and put them back on the market.
According to V. Pupelis, the information in this regard was sent to the State Food and Veterinary Service and the State Drug Control Service, which applied administrative sanctions to the company.
The completed pre-trial investigation was announced by the police in late November last year.
In the closed case, allegations of bribery and fraudulent accounting were made against a legal entity, the pharmaceutical company Valentis pharma. Seven representatives of the pharmaceutical company are suspected of bribery, some of them – fraudulent accounting, four former and current doctors – bribery.
The study surveyed more than 1,100 people and collected data that the company was able to allocate more than 74,000 bribes for bribes to doctors from 2014 to early 2015. euros.
For this pre-trial investigation, the General Prosecutor’s Office had formed a special investigation group of prosecutors from the Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys regional prosecutor’s offices and officials from all territorial subdivisions of the STT.
The State Tax Inspection has filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company for more than 39 thousand. euros.
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