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“The investigation continues and during it the analysis of documents and other necessary steps of the pre-trial investigation are carried out,” said the representative of the prosecutor’s office.
The company “Plungės kooperatine prekyba” in its 2023 in the activity report, it is mentioned that suspicions were brought against the company’s employees, but the prosecutor’s office did not confirm this.
“More detailed information cannot be provided at this time, in order not to harm the course of the investigation,” said V. Jonuitė, a representative of the prosecutor’s office.
We remind you that after information appeared that a company partially controlled by the “Vičiūnai” group may have transported sanctioned and war-purposed goods to Russia, the prosecutor’s office announced in April that it had started a pre-trial investigation into the violation of international sanctions.
This investigation is organized and controlled by the prosecutors of the Criminal Prosecution Department of the Klaipėda District Prosecutor’s Office. The investigation is carried out by the officers of the Klaipėda Division of the Customs Criminal Service.
It was also previously reported that the Klaipėda District Prosecutor’s Office instructed the officers of the territorial department of the Customs Criminal Service to conduct an investigation into the possible violation of international sanctions by the “Vičiūnai” group company “Plungės kooperatinė prekyba”.
In April, the news portal “lrt.lt” published an investigation, which revealed that “Plungės kooperatinė prekyba” belonging to the “Vičiūnai” group transported goods included in the sanctions to Sovetska at least 11 times.
It is reported that products and technologies classified as high-priority battlefield goods were transported from Lithuania to Kaliningrad.
“Vičiūnai” admitted that it transported such goods to Russia, but claims that it did not know about the sanctions.
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