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The court representative, Vaiva Milkeraitienė, informed BNS about this. According to her, the court did not find that there was evidence in the case that M. Žalimas could escape or hide, nor that he could try to destroy the evidence, influence witnesses or other suspects.
The court also assessed the fact that although the suspect has been previously convicted of similar crimes, this does not in itself mean that he also committed the crime.
“According to the circumstances indicated by the prosecutor, the materials of the pre-trial investigation presented to the court show that Mindaugas Žalimas is suspected of having committed a serious crime punishable by a severe prison term, exclusive of up to eight years, but as It is indicated in the jurisprudence, it is an absolute condition for the application of the strictest measure of detention, so in this section the context of all the circumstances and facts of the investigation must be assessed. Mindaugas Žalimas is employed, has a place of permanent residence, he lives with his fiancée, with whom he is raising a small child, so there is no sufficient reason to conclude that the suspect in Lithuania is not linked by close family or social ties. There is no evidence that the suspect Mindaugas Žalimas have reliable overseas connections, which would increase your chances of escaping, hiding from drill officers, the prosecutor or court, or announce your search.
According to the prosecutor, the suspect is convicted in foreign countries, but in the opinion of the court, this is no reason to claim that he has close ties in those countries. In these circumstances, it should be noted that there are no objective data on which it can be concluded that the suspect Mindaugas Žalimas, while at liberty, can flee (hide) from the pre-trial investigation, officials, prosecutor and court. ”, Ruled the Kaunas District Court.
The court also ordered suspect Mindaugas Žalimas not to contact or seek contacts with other suspects: Rimandas Stonis, Darius Daugal, Rolandas Mažrimas and Linas Marijus Vaitkevičius.
The Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office, which controls the pre-trial investigation, first approached the court in early March, requesting the detention of M. Žalimas for three months, but this request was only partially granted and the detention was granted for a period of time. two week period.
Judge Audronė Levinskienė, who reviewed the arrest request, told the SNB that the two-week deadline was chosen as an intermediate option, that it violated neither the suspect’s rights nor the public interest.
The prosecution then tried to arrest three more suspects in the investigation, but the arrest of the month was limited to one of them, Roland Mažrim.
Two more suspects were sentenced to 20,000. Deposit in euros, written commitments not to leave and restrictions on communication with other suspects.
At the beginning of the month, police announced a pre-trial investigation into large-scale VAT fraud and fraudulent accounting, which involved the arrest of five people, including energy businessman Rimandas Stonys.
Stonys is the only suspect whose arrest was not requested by the prosecution.
According to the Financial Crimes Investigation Service, in a few months, this organized group of accomplices could have avoided around 1.1 million people using the diesel and oil buy and sell scheme. VAT and excise duties.
The forces of order have previously considered M. Žalimas as the main organizer of criminal activities on 13 occasions for various financial convictions.
According to the FNTT, the alleged organizer of the fraud scheme has been known since 1994 for similar crimes against law enforcement agencies. He has been convicted several times in the past for large-scale VAT fraud in the fuel, metal, wood and building materials trade, and has spent several years in prisons as a result.
“The court, when pleading guilty, already declared in 2011 that the commission of similar crimes has become an integral part of the suspect’s way of life and source of livelihood. Currently, the FNTT is conducting three more preliminary investigations for crimes serious against the public finance system involving this person, and several more cases are pending in the courts, ”the service previously said.
R. Stonys is the owner of Kaunas Cogeneration Power Plant (KHPP), previously controlled the Dujotekana company, she was one of the largest gas importers of the Russian company Gazprom in Lithuania.
According to data from TOP magazine, the value of R. Stonis’ property in 2019 reached 70 million. euros.
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