“MG Grupė” appealed the decision within the case of political corruption

It requests the annulment of the a part of the judgment of the Lithuanian Court docket of Attraction dated November 22 of final yr, by which the priority “MG Baltic” was discovered responsible of bribery and affect buying and selling.

1.1 million allotted to him The group has already paid the EUR wonderful.

The LAT enterprise group requests that the acquittal of the Vilnius District Court docket on April 19, 2020 be upheld.

“MG Grupė” is likely one of the largest manufacturing, commerce, actual property and media corporations in Lithuania.

The Court docket of Attraction determined that the info of the case enable us to moderately conclude that “MG Grupė” (beforehand referred to as “MG Baltic”) was looking for favorable selections in laws or different areas related to it “not solely by authorized means, but in addition by consciously utilizing the affect of its board member Raimonds Kurlianskis the affect he has within the media, his acquaintances in numerous teams of society, amongst others, in politics, in addition to his monetary capabilities as a big enterprise working in Lithuania”.

In line with the court docket, legal acts precipitated extraordinarily nice injury to the state of Lithuania and its political system.

Additionally convicted on this case had been R. Kurlianskis, former chairman of the Liberal motion Eligijus Masiulis, member of the Seimas Vytautas Gapšys, former parliamentarians Šarūnas Gustainis and Gintaras Steponavičius, and authorized entities – the Liberal Motion and the Labor Occasion.

R. Kurlianskis was sentenced to jail phrases for bribing politicians, E. Masiulis and V. Gapšius for bribery, authorized entities, Š. Gustainiis and G. Steponavičius – fines.