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“Upon receiving a statement signed by three members of the Seimas requesting the initiation of a pre-trial investigation for possible criminal offenses in the vaccination of certain people with COVID-19, the prosecution reports that the Special Investigation Service will receive instructions to examine and verify cases of vaccination “. in the prosecution report.
Andrius Vyšniauskas, Jurgita Sejonienė and Paulė Kuzmickienė, MPs from the ruling Conservative Party, presented a statement to the Prosecutor’s Office on Saturday.
According to the prosecution, the decision on the pre-trial investigation will be made after examining the application.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, these cases will also be referred to the Ministry of Health.
“In response to public discontent with these cases, the Ministry of Health will also be contacted immediately to request a systematic inspection of the cases identified or suspected of disciplinary or official responsibility and to present the material to the Prosecutor’s Office,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.
The Prosecutor’s Office also recalls that the Whistleblower Protection Law is in force in Lithuania, which provides for the possibility to safely report violations of the law to a person.
You can find more information on how to grant the status of notifier, ensure confidentiality and other guarantees, the ways to send a notification and other relevant information on the website of the Prosecutor’s Office, and if you have additional questions, you can consult the help line of the notifier.
On Saturday, the 15min.lt portal announced that the COVID-19 vaccine had been vaccinated at the Šilalė GMP station by the head of the company that operates this station, R. Ūselis, and three relatives who do not work for the company. The company’s vaccine list also included more clerical staff than medical last names.
The businessman himself explained to the portal that he did not see anything wrong with this decision and said that he would always take care of the vaccine in this way. Speaking of his relatives, R. Ūselis said that he would prepare them if he needed to volunteer.
“And what – we are not medical ambulance? We asked, they gave us and we went, we vaccinated. Employees, volunteers, because half of our brigades are sick from the crown,” he explained.
Following a press release, the Health Ministry announced that it had launched an investigation into the case and the stories published earlier this week by BNS that the non-hired teachers had been vaccinated at the Žalgiris Clinic of the Vilnius University Hospital.
President Gitanas Nausėda called the unsuccessful attempts to obtain vaccines “shameful relics of Soviet behavior” and demanded swift and decisive decisions on the responsibility of those who violated the vaccination regime.
The Special Investigation Service announced Saturday night that it had decided to conduct an anti-corruption assessment of the COVID-19 vaccine organization.
The fact that vaccines are sometimes given to physicians in direct contact with coronavirus patients and in priority groups has been reported since late December, when Lithuania received the first batch of vaccine and began vaccination.
According to data from the Statistics Department on Saturday, a total of about 22.5 thousand people have already been vaccinated in Lithuania. people.
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