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According to Environment Minister Simonas Gentvilas, O.Vėbrienė is being relieved of her post as head of the department, which turns out she could not even be accepted.
Because O.Vėbrienė’s managerial work experience did not meet the requirements of the position, she was hired last year. Furthermore, due to lack of management experience, he was unable to fill these positions even temporarily.
It is possible that the official sponsored by the former Minister of the Environment Kęstutis Mažeika and the European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius has provided the Civil Service Department with false information about her work experience.
O.Vėbrienė herself explained that she did not know what she was accused of forgery, but she intends to go to the police institutions and the courts in relation to the order of Minister S. Gentvilas.
It is true that this official has been losing one field after another lately. Nothing to hear about the trips of the former head of the department to the Prosecutor’s Office, where she dealt with her role as rapporteur.
There was no other choice
O.Vėbrienė was granted speaker status in early January, when her chair began to shake sharply. The head of the department herself informed prosecutors about the illegal behavior of S. Gentvilas.
The Rapporteur Protection Law stipulates that a person who has been granted such status cannot be fired, relegated or reduced in salary.
By the way, according to sources, the remuneration received by O.Vėbrienė sometimes even exceeded the Minister’s salary.
For example, in March, the head of the department earned more than 5 thousand. In December of last year, with a lump sum payment, your income could reach 8.8 thousand euros. euros.
S. Gentvilas, who fired the head of the department, stated that Lietuvos Rytas had no other choice: “The dismissal of O. Vėbrienė is not related to my job or to her.
A person of such competence cannot simply hold these positions and no law is born of bad conduct.
Anyone in my place should make the same decision. The law requires me, as an employer, to do so. “
It is true that S. Gentvilas believes that the Law for the Protection of the Rapporteur passed last year is not perfect, because it very clearly describes the procedure for granting Rapporteur status, but does not mention anything about how it is lost.
Former law enforcement subordinate Minister of the Environment Lietuvos Rytas said that he had asked the prosecution three times to investigate the charges against O. Vėbrienė, but that no one explained anything to him: “In three months I was not summoned or questioned. “.
He couldn’t lead
The minister told Lietuvos Rytas that he was interested in the circumstances of the employment of the director of the department under the Ministry after receiving the complaint.
According to S. Gentvilas, two years of managerial experience are required to occupy this position, at that time O.Vėbrienė did not have it: “We requested the Department of Civil Service and he admitted that the information provided by her was incorrect and such a person could not participate in the contest “.
The minister refused to reveal what false information about O.Vėbrienė had provided about herself, but, according to sources at Lietuvos Rytas, the organizer of the contest may have misled the information provided about her membership of one of the working groups formed by the Ministry of Economy and Innovation.
Why was it not seen during the preparation of the selection of the head of the department last year that O.Vėbrienė lacks experience in management work?
“It’s a good question, but it shouldn’t be directed at me.
I was not a minister at the time and I don’t know why the fuses were not working, “replied S. Gentvilas.
The head of the ministry said she did not doubt her decision and believes that O.Vėbrien que, who traveled from one warm place to another, could not even become the temporary head of the department last year.
S. Gentvilas did not begin to assess whether the lack of experience of the fired department head could be reflected in her work, but recalled that O.Vėbrienė has recently lost three tribunals in court.
The Minister is the third person
Due to several contradictory decisions by O.Vėbrienė, the state will have to compensate for the damage.
For example, last March, the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court confirmed the complaint of O. Vėbrienė, a Klaipėda resident of Klaipėda, who had been removed from his post, and ordered the environmentalist to pay for the forced absences.
According to Lietuvos Rytas, D. Bagčius was removed from his post for providing information about the Būtingė accident to the Minister of the Environment S. Gentvilas during his vacation.
The Department of Environmental Protection accused a specialist of the Marine Environment Protection Inspectorate of the Klaipėda Board, who criticized his management, for committing a serious offense when receiving official information about pollutants spilled into the sea with third parties.
Doubts about transparency
The leadership of the department subordinate to the Ministry of the Environment began to show unprecedented integrity after receiving criticism from S. Gentvilas “Lietuvos ryte”.
As announced, O.Vėbrienė appointed friends or former co-workers as his deputies and advisers, and distributed them with solid assignments.
Jurgis Kazlauskas, who was transferred to the department from the Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Control Service out of official necessity in May last year, became a deputy without competition.
The former assistant to the member of the Seimas Tomas Tomilinas had been appointed senior specialist of the Waste Management Control Division, but the next day he became the head of this division.
For some time, at the same time, he worked both in the Department and in the Disputes Commission of the Ministry of Social Security and Labor.
However, J. Kazlauskas is still assigned 20% of his salary. Supplement for activities not provided for in their functions.
Later, Gentvilas publicly questioned whether the personnel decisions made in the department were transparent.
The Minister of the Environment soon abolished some of the advisory posts created in the department.
The department appealed against the minister’s order to the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court, but rejected the appeal.
The penalty imposed is canceled
Last March, the court also reversed the sanction imposed on Vaidas Laukius, the predecessor of O.Vėbrienė, the former head of the Department of Environmental Protection.
V. Laukis was severely reprimanded for allegedly violating the rules for the use of official cars, but the court ruled that the official inspection was incomplete.
After receiving a severe reprimand, V.Laukys was removed from the post of head of the Kaunas Department of Environmental Quality by order of O.Vėbrienė, to which he was transferred from the position of head of the department by order of former minister K.Mažeika.
V.Laukys has also appealed both decisions to the court. It was decided to transfer the former head of the department to a lower post after the Alytus fire and the pollution scandal in the Curonian Lagoon.
Before it was Feschenko
O.Vėbrienė was temporarily appointed to head the Department of Environmental Protection in place of V.Laukis. Previously, he headed the Strategic Decision Support Group of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation.
According to Lietuvos Rytas sources, these posts were created for him when O. Vėbrienė lost the post of Chancellor of the Ministry following the appointment of former Peasant Minister V. Sinkevičius as European Commissioner.
Before that, O.Vėbrienė was an advisor to Minister V. Sinkevičius. He also advised the former minister when he chaired the Seimas Economic Committee.
Even before, O.Vėbrienė has been a subordinate of the current Conservative leader Gabrielius Landsbergis. When G. Landsbergis headed the Division of Regional and National Minorities in the Prime Minister’s Office, this official held the position of Senior Specialist. At that time, she was known by the surname of Feschenko.
Public retaliation against the manager
By the way, commenting on his dismissal from the Department of Environmental Protection, O.Vėbrienė shared suspicions on social media that such a decision by the Minister of the Environment may have been caused by his communication with prosecutors: “The condition of a speaker no No add love to the manager. “
Furthermore, according to the interpretation of O. Vėbrienė, S. Gentvilas has shown that not in vain does he belong to his father’s party and “is guided by this party (Liberal Movement. – Ed.), An ideology alien to the politics of deduction” .
