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According to BNS, the director of the medical equipment company Limeta, a member of the Kretinga District Council, the former parliamentary social democrat Virginijus Domarkas, as well as the director of the company Limeta NT, a shareholder of both companies Kęstutis Kutkauskas, were arrested. and received suspicions from the forces of order. He is the husband of Jelena Kutkauskienė, director of the Vilnius Republican University Hospital.
D. Kanopienė, the detained head of the Šeškinė polyclinic, is the wife of Vidmantas Kanopa, a member of the Seimas and a Social Democrat.
Erland Sudeikis, chairman of the board and shareholder of Graina, a company that also markets medical equipment and is based in Panevėžys, was also suspected.
According to the Central Public Procurement Portal, Limeta and Graina have won dozens of acquisitions in various health institutions in the country.
The STT announced Wednesday that it is conducting a large-scale pre-trial investigation into alleged corruption in the procurement of medical equipment and other medical devices at various health centers around the country. More information on this is promised on Thursday.
According to the LNK Knowledge Service, around 20 directors, doctors and technical staff of medical institutions have already been arrested in the STT investigation, and law enforcement agencies are interested in Radviliškis, Utena polyclinics and Kėdainiai hospital.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Special Investigation Service
Both the Vilnius Clinical Hospital and its shareholder, the capital city, state that they still have no information about the manager’s arrest.
“We have no official information yet,” Vilnius spokesman Karolis Vaitkevičius told BNS.
“I can say that he was not at work and I don’t know anything about the arrest,” said Vaidas Kukarėnas, advisor to the director of the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital.
The SNB could not be reached at the Šeškinė Polyclinic.
The arrests of D. Kanopienė, N. Markevičius and K. Kutkauskas were the first to be announced on Wednesday by LNK television and Info TV.
The pre-trial investigation is led and organized by the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department of the Attorney General’s Office and District Attorney’s Offices. Or.
Photo by LRV / Arūnas Dulkys
Earlier, it was announced that the STT Central Investigation Board, together with all territorial boards, is conducting a large-scale pre-trial investigation to determine whether corruption offenses have been committed while organizing and participating in public procurement of medical equipment and other medical services. devices.
Minister A. Dulkys said at a press conference on Wednesday after the government meeting that he did not know the details of the investigation and was waiting for information. This is a “serious signal for the whole system”.
Representatives of the Vilnius municipality do not comment on the situation, according to them, official information is expected, and then decisions will be made on the heads of institutions, if necessary.
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