“Alytus district council member Algirdas Vrubliauskas has been charged with abuse, falsification of paperwork and their use, and fraud”, confirmed 15min data was supplied by STT press consultant Julija Gorovniovaitė.
As acknowledged within the report launched later by STT, the pre-trial investigation is carried out by the Kaunas Board, and the investigation is led by the prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Kaunas District Prosecutor’s Workplace.
Harm – 20 thousand. euros
In line with STT, the previous mayor of Alytus district, A. Vrubliauskas, as a member of the council, had the correct to obtain funds for bills incurred whereas performing the actions of a member of the council.
“In line with the investigation information, the suspect might have declared the gasoline and car restore bills incurred whereas performing particular person actions as bills associated to the actions of a council member,” the report reads.
“In the course of the interval of 2019-2023, it’s suspected that he submitted cast monetary paperwork to the administration of the Alytus district municipality with the intention to obtain compensation for allegedly incurred bills. On this means, by presumably abusing his workplace, he induced nice non-pecuniary injury to the municipality and fraudulently obtained nearly 20 thousand. euros,” it provides.
“I do not worth something”
A. Vrubliauskas himself 15min acknowledged that he has not but familiarized himself with the allegations offered intimately, so he doesn’t wish to consider them.
“I do not decide something, I nonetheless wish to dig deeper, then I’ll decide once I dig deeper,” mentioned the previous mayor of Alytus district.
He didn’t reply the query whether or not he had already returned the absorbed funds to the municipal funds.
“I do not wish to discuss now, I signed that I can not touch upon something,” the politician emphasised and shortly ended the dialog with out saying goodbye.
Suspended celebration membership
Government Secretary of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Martynas Prievelis on Thursday night15min acknowledged that A. Vrubliauskas suspended his membership within the celebration.
BNS picture/TS-LKD
“At the moment we obtained data that he’s suspending his membership within the celebration,” mentioned a celebration consultant.
In line with him, A. Vrubliauskas has been a member of the celebration since 1996.
The celebration management obtained suspicions concerning the actions of its influential and long-time member 15min has not commented but.
He poured tons of gasoline
15min reminds that the title of A. Vrubliauskas was talked about within the “cheques” scandal final September, when it grew to become clear that the previous mayor of the district poured tons of gasoline into the cell column he owned.
In line with the “Skaidrinam” initiative, the gasoline receipts he submitted have been “spectacular” – the politician used tons of gasoline and paid solely in money, and the receipts indicated A. Vrubliauska’s credentials as a farmer.
At the moment himself the politician prevented answering 15min questionspromised to reply them in writing, however by no means did.
In line with the “Skaidrinam” investigation, A. Vrubliauskas was compensating for the gasoline poured into official, private vehicles and a cell gasoline station. For instance, as soon as a former mayor poured 999 liters of diesel at a gasoline station. A. Vrubliauskas solely paid in money at gasoline stations.
When reimbursing the funds, A. Vrubliauskas submitted his particulars each as a pure particular person and as a farmer.
19 research
STT additionally introduced that it’s at the moment conducting 19 pre-trial investigations into the funds of members of municipal councils.
They’re carried out within the cities of Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai and the municipalities of Kaunas, Alytus, Utena, Ukmergė, Kretinga, Ignalina, Mažeikiai, Šilutė, Jonava, Lazdijai, Pasvali, Prienai and Birštonas, Marijampole, Neringa, Pagėgiai.
“Pre-trial investigations are being carried out with the intention to make clear and assess whether or not there was any abuse within the provision of advantages to council members to pay bills associated to their actions as council members,” the report reads.
Pre-trial investigations have been began making an allowance for the data printed within the public house and the experiences obtained relating to the suspected non-transparent, unjustified use of municipal funds and the looks of an absence of accountability and transparency in self-government.
Details about probably illegally used allowances of council members is printed by “Skaidrinam” initiative of publicist and presenter Andrias Tapinas.
Suspicions are at the moment being introduced in opposition to 3 extra individuals, considered one of them is a social democrat, Jonava district mayor Mindaugas Sinkevičius.
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2024-07-01 23:53:17