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On Friday, the Lithuanian Court of Appeal sentenced the former leader, President Rolandas Paksas, who had been charged, to three years in prison, and the head of the Lithuanian morning media group Gedvydas Vainauskas was fined 26,300 euros.
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According to Judge Algimantas Valantinas, President of the Chamber, the execution of the sentence imposed on R. Paksas was postponed for two years and three months, during which time he is prohibited from leaving his place of residence without informing law enforcement.
The former politician is also obliged to pay 941 euros to the Crime Victims Fund within a month.
Both R. Paksas and G. Vainauskas have been found guilty of the effects of trade.
The nature of the crime has been taken into account, that is, influence trading, there is only one offer, an agreement, actually without consequences, which is a formal composition. Another thing, when choosing such punishments, the court also took into account the duration of the process, the personalities convicted such as inia, none of them were convicted, A. Valantinas told reporters after the hearing.
According to him, the Penal Code provides for the possibility of imposing a fine on G. Vainauskas for the crime committed by him, however, in the case of R. Paksas, such a penalty is not foreseen.
The appeals court is bound by the appeal, that is, the penalties that the prosecutor sil and we are precisely to the extent of such penalties and apply, paymjo A. Valantinas.
Likewise, the businessman accused in the case, Antanas Juozas Zabulis, was confirmed by the accusation against him. G. Vainauskas was also legalized for an episode related to this businessman.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, in 2015 R. Paksas and G. Vainauskas agreed on a policy of 15,000 euros to influence the works inspector in relation to the permission to use the Prienai stores. They deny their guilt. G. Vainauskas stated that he was conducting a journalistic investigation and R. Paksas claimed that the case was intended to eliminate his policy.
An impact negotiation was carried out, an order was issued and it was agreed to take certain actions, namely to speed up the process by completing the addition of the Norfa shopping center in Prienai, the episode was evaluated by the president of the Court of Appeal.
In the AJ Zabulis law enforcement episode, G. Vainauskas agreed to accept an offer from a businessman to take advantage of the fact that the Financial Crimes Investigation Service ended the investigation into the fraud of the renewable energy company and high-tech BOD Group by absorbing the support of the European Union. The rotation investigation was terminated.
According to the prosecutor, AJ Zabulis acted in the interests of Vidod Januleviius, head of the BOD Group, and complaints were presented to him in the aforementioned investigation.
According to A. Valantinas, the conclusions of the Court of First Instance on this episode are correct and reasonable.
On April 15, the Vilnius Regional Court ruled that not all the defendants had committed an act that constituted a crime or a criminal offense.
So, after examining the case according to the court’s appreciation, it is not possible to draw an unequivocal and unequivocal conclusion from the media collected during the pre-trial investigation by the prosecution that the defendant understood the agreement, understood the agreement or facilitated corruption.
The decision was appealed to the Court of Appeals by prosecutors, whose appeal was partially satisfied by Friday’s decision.
The complaint will be filed by the prosecutor to impose a conditional sentence of three years and two months in prison on R. Paksas, G. Vainauskas was asked for the conditional sentence of three years and a fine of 26,000 euros. The objective was to impose a fine of 24,000 euros on AJ Zabulis.
The decision of the Court of Appeal is binding immediately, but can be appealed on cassation to the Supreme Court of Lithuania.
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