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Attorney General Gintaras Jasaitis, Attorney General of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor for Organized Crime and Corruption Gintaras Jasaitis, appealed the decision of the Vilnius Regional Court to justify the actions of R. Antanavičius, a Judge of the Kaunas Regional Court. and unsupported by the Attorney General's Office complained on Wednesday.
R. Antanavičius was accused of bribing Mindaugas Klemenis, a judge of the local district court of Mažeikiai, in June 2017 by giving him a bribe of 600 euros. Mr Klemeni mitigated the administrative penalty imposed on an individual by the police, which reduced the period of deprivation of the right to drive vehicles.
The appeal indicates that the court made unjustified conclusions about the doubtfulness of Mr. Klemenis' credibility. According to the Office of the Attorney General, Judge M. Klemenis, since the beginning of the preliminary inquiry and during the trial, provided clear, consistent, logical and lively testimony about the meeting with Judge Antanavicius last June. . A € 600 bribe was handed over
The complaint also indicates that the court did not fully badyze and appreciate the evidence collected, rendering R. Antanavičius unjustified acquittal
The Public Prosecutor's Office asks R. Antanavičius to be found guilty of corruption. a fine of 750 euros and a contribution of the victims of the crime
During the criminal proceedings, the powers of Judge R. Antanavičius were suspended. He denies his guilt
The Vilnius Regional Court acquitted R. Antanavičius at the beginning of July. Judge Gintaras Dzedulionis then stated that the main witness in the case, Mr. Klemenis, was controversial and illogical and was questioning his credibility as a witness. According to the judge, Mr. Klemenis himself destroyed the tangible evidence – he returned to R. Antanavich the money he had given, deleted the "Viber" discussion program, which he communicated with R. Antanavičius. This did not save the contents of the messages and left no evidence of communication between the two judges.
Mr. Clemeny (left) and R. Antanavicius (right)
"In cases, it is necessary to know what the pot- They were talking about the judicial practice, the conversation was not specific, R. Antanavičius did not ask anything concrete, it was a conversation of colleagues on the practice of the courts ", – said Judge G. Dzedulionis
Mr. Clemeny, for his part, explained that he returned the money given to his former colleague five days later and did not go to the officials only when the driver started to communicate with him and to offer money to other people because of the easing of the sentence.
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