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The pre-trial investigations under Article 277 of the Penal Code (“Violation of the rules to combat epidemics or communicable diseases”) started when the Panevėžys County Chief Police Commission received information about possible violations of self-isolation in the city and Kupiškis and Biržai district.
According to preliminary data, the resident of the Kupiškis district, knowing that he was sick with COVID-19 and was obliged to comply with the self-isolation conditions, visited a local store.
The family living in Kupiškis, who was also diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus, may have gone shopping at the supermarket.
Police officers told a young man living in Biržai with coronavirus after receiving information that he had left home around 11 p.m. Found walking through the city. The young man did not wear a protective mask and said he thought he had the right to go for a walk.
In all of these cases, pre-trial investigations have been initiated to fully and thoroughly investigate the circumstances of the incident. Pre-trial investigations are conducted by prosecutors from the Panevėžys District Prosecutor’s Office.
The Penal Code establishes that a person who, having been informed by a medical institution of his illness and advised of the protection measures that he must take in contact with human beings, has endangered another person with a serious or particularly serious communicable disease , punishable by a fine or deprivation of liberty or detention, or imprisonment for up to one year.
Anyone who has violated the requirements of health legislation or the rules for the control of communicable diseases, if this has caused the spread of a disease or an epidemic, will be punished with a fine or arrest or imprisonment of up to five years.
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