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According to the VPT, in 2019-2020, under the leadership of Limeta, a member of the Kretinga District Council, a former parliamentary social democrat Virginijus Domarkas, to whom suspicions have been raised in this pre-trial investigation, 1.1 thousand contracts for 20 million. 577 thousand euros. Kęstutis Kutkauskas, a Limeta shareholder, who also received suspicions, also received the attention of law enforcement agencies.
Another company mentioned in the study, Graina, concluded more than 600 contracts for more than 37 million in the two years since the awards. euros.
Public procurement data shows that Graina supplied medical equipment to various medical institutions and municipalities in Lithuania. For example, among the highest value purchases are the 1.3 million LTL purchased by the Klaipėda City Council last year. Last year, the Kaunas City Polyclinic also bought two MRI cameras from the company, each worth more than 1.1 million euros. euros.
Among the company’s clients are the Santara and Kaunas Clinics, Ministry of Health.
The chairman of the board and the shareholder of this company Erland Sudeikis have also been suspected.
Limeta’s contracts with the investigated institutions – for 1.5 million. euros
Limeta has signed almost fifty contracts worth more than one and a half million euros with the medical institutions involved in the instruction.
Over two years, 26 contracts were concluded with the Vilnius Clinical Hospital for 813 thousand. euros. The largest of them – 583 thousand. In February last year, an agreement was concluded on the purchase of maintenance and repair services and spare parts for medical equipment, worth EUR.
Last May, the Vilnius Clinical Hospital amounted to 47 thousand. In 2019, more than 70 thousand euros were spent on the installation and digitization of the X-ray machine. Euros for medical equipment.
Limeta concluded 13 agreements with the Kėdainiai Hospital, its value – more than 340 thousand. euros. More than half the value of these contracts is one – 199 thousand. An agreement on the purchase of X-ray machines, signed in September last year, cost the hospital a billion euros. Almost 50 thousand more. The hospital paid for the medical gas system and its installation last December.
The Plung Distrito District Municipal Hospital entered into six contracts with Limeta for more than 398 thousand. euros. Almost 200 thousand. this hospital also paid for a diagnostic X-ray machine in August last year, spending another 149 thousand in December. for an endoscopic diagnostic device.
In two years, two contracts worth approximately LTL 25,000 were concluded with Šeškinė Polyclinic. The only contract worth EUR 707 was concluded with the Vilnius District Nemenčinė Polyclinic. The Radviliškis Primary Health Care Center concluded a contract of similar value (724 euros).
During the two years, Limeta also accounted for 2.6 million. Contracts worth EUR with the Republican Hospital of Šiauliai, 720 Cerdocyon. EUR of contracts with the Karoliniškės polyclinic, 950 Cerdocyon. EUR – with the Santara clinics, 11 contracts with the Kretinga Hospital are worth almost 565 Cerdocyon. euros.
35 contracts with Graina worth 2 million euros
Graina has entered into a total of 35 contracts worth more than 2 million LTL with the medical institutions mentioned in the STT study, whose perpetrators were already suspected in the study. 56 thousand euros.
Last year, the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital bought maintenance and repair services for medical equipment and parts of the company, the value of this purchase amounts to 284.8 thousand LTL. euros. In 2019, the hospital purchased diagnostic reagents with the use of Graina analyzers for 180.6 thousand. euros.
Last year 50,000 were also bought from the company. In 2019, 29.4 thousand euros of medical supplies were valued. purchase of medical equipment for value. In 2019, the company also supplied 20.5 thousand. disinfectants, 8.2 thousand medical equipment repair services worth EUR.
A total of 11 contracts worth more than 585 thousand. euros.
Šeškinė Polyclinic in Graina last year for 210 thousand. 201 thousand euros were purchased for X-ray diagnostic equipment, and in 2019 – 20 thousand euros. ultrasound system worth EUR. The three contracts he signed have a value of 285 thousand. euros.
Nemenčinė Polyclinic last year from the company for 199.8 thousand. bought an X-ray diagnostic system. Such a system about half a month before 199.7 thousand. The Plung Distrito District Municipal Hospital also bought 1 million euros from Graina.
In 2019, the Nemenčinė Polyclinic also bought 78.3 thousand from Graina. ultrasound diagnostic equipment worth EUR. Last year, the polyclinic of 51 thousand. bought artificial lung ventilators. Also last year there were two purchases, where 10 thousand. Electrocardiographs and equipment for cardiological examinations were purchased.
The five contracts signed by this polyclinic amount to almost 350 thousand. euros.
Kėdainiai Hospital concluded a total of nine contracts with Graina for 336 thousand. euros. Last year it was 129.8 thousand. bought equipment for the endoscopy office for 105.8 Cerdocyon. EUR – mammography digitization equipment, in 2019 leased 37 thousand. Ultrasound devices worth 21.6 thousand euros last year. ultrasound equipment worth EUR.
Last year, there were also two purchases, each for 11.9 thousand. for the repair and quality control of medical equipment. For 9.5 thousand. X-ray cartridges and protective equipment purchased in euros.
Plungė District Municipal Hospital entered into seven contracts with the suspected company for just over half a million euros.
In 2019, the hospital for 127 thousand. acquired a digital X-ray machine through a lease. The hospital bought another X-ray machine the same day for $ 120,000. euros. In the same year, the Graina hospital for 35.9 thousand. EUR acquired laboratory reagents, last year for 18.7 thousand. EUR: maintenance and repair services for medical equipment. Two 4 thousand were also carried out. purchases worth holter monitors.
There may be more suspect treatment facilities
After announcing a large-scale investigation into corruption in public procurement in the health sector on Thursday, police said allegations of various corruption offenses were made against 35 people, four of whom are heads of private companies and six are heads of medical institutions.
Law enforcement confirmed that the suspects include Narimantas Markevičius, director of Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, Daiva Kanopienė, Director of Šeškinė Polyclinic, Olegas Kačanas, Chief Medical Officer of Vilnius District Nemenčinė Polyclinic, Stasys Skauminas, Hospital Director Kėdainiai, director of the main municipality of Plungė district director Irena Janušonienė.
The complaints were also made against V. Domarkas, director of Limeta, K. Kutkauskas, shareholder of both companies, and E. Sudeikis, director of Graina.
More than a hundred crimes are being investigated, according to the Special Investigation Service. It is suspected that they may have involved more than a dozen medical institutions from different municipalities, their managers and other people responsible for public procurement.
According to law enforcement, criminal acts such as abuse, bribery, influence peddling, bribery, as well as fraudulent accounting and falsification of documents are investigated.
Darius Balčiūnas, the head of the STT Central Board of Investigation, said on Thursday that 270,000 people were found during about 150 searches. cash in various currencies. According to him, officials also recorded moments of possible transfer of a bribe.
According to the prosecutor Žydrūnas Radišauskas, the public procurement of the institutions “restricted competition, discriminated against other suppliers” and the conditions to win over certain protected companies were harmonized.
Most of the suspects were taken into custody with written promises not to leave. A suspect, E. Sudeikis, was arrested. The prosecution also requested the arrest of V. Domarkas and K. Kutkauskas, but the court did not comply with these requests.
The investigation of the Central Investigation Board of the STT is controlled, organized and directed by a group of prosecutors from the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Directorate of the Attorney General’s Office and the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Divisions of the Prosecutor’s Offices District.
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