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Algirdas Bautronis, the head of the Alytus Fire and Rescue Service, and Saulius Mockevičius, the lead specialist for this service, had to open the court door on Thursday. A case should have been opened here in which these officials were accused of breach of their duties.
The journalists’ defendants opened a wall of silence, avoiding any comment. After the meeting, the chief of the Alytus fire brigade only said he did not want to speak and hurt himself or others with his comments.
Although A. Bautronis did not comment on the allegations made against him and his colleague, lawyer Vytautas Kucevičius expressed his position. “The person I am defending and I think the allegations are really unfounded,” said the lawyer.
Although the case was to be heard on the merits in court on Thursday, it has not yet been possible to do so. The hearing was held in court, but A. Bautronis V. Kucevičius’s lawyer and S. Mockevičius’s lawyer, Artūras Andriukaitis, petitioned the court to return the charge to the prosecutor’s office due to their incorrect census .
Nomeda Urbonavičienė, prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office, who drafted it, disagreed with this and asked to reject the request, but the court will decide what decision to take, which will take time. . The decision on whether the indictment should be returned to the prosecutor’s office will be published in August.
“The accusation-based defense cannot be defended in practice, because in our opinion the accusation is of low quality, abstract, and does not meet the requirements of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Therefore, we asked the court to refer the case to the prosecutor for inconsistency in the content of the accusation. The essential point is that the rights of the defense have been infringed. We cannot defend ourselves against such an abstract accusation, “said lawyer V. Kucevičius.
Prosecutor N. Urbonavičienė took a different position, convinced that the accusation was drafted appropriately and that its essence was clearly established.
“The defendants are accused of failing to fulfill their duties. By failing to organize and guarantee planned and unscheduled fire inspections at Ekologistika, by failing to take action, and by not including Ekologistika in the group of objects inspected, by not assigning it to the first group of objects inspected, failing to take action, and not including this company in the 2016 annual inspection plans, “the prosecutor said.
He stressed that from the written material of the pre-trial investigation it was clear that the defendants had not organized and provided state fire supervision at the premises where a major fire occurred last year since the end of December 2016.
“According to the data from the pre-trial investigation, since the end of 2016, both defendants have been aware of this company, its activities. It was also known that in Pramon Pras st. 25 thousand tons of tires will be accumulated, stored and stored used in facilities located in 1 year, ”said N. Urbonavičienė.
A. Bautronis and S. Mockevičius are accused in accordance with article 229 of the Penal Code. By virtue of this, the breach of official duties falls into the category of negligent crimes.
In the future, it will become clear how things really went and whether officials are really to blame for failing to perform their duties. The case is being examined by Judge Vilma Dapkevičienė.
The Penal Code establishes a fine, arrest or imprisonment of up to two years for breach of official duties.
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