KNAB informed that the office obtained evidence that two sworn lawyers, together with a family doctor, may have managed to submit a fake extract from an outpatient’s medical card to the court as a document justifying the bar’s non-appearance at the court hearing. As a result of the criminal activities of these persons, the court postponed the consideration of the civil case.
The evidence obtained in the KNAB investigation gives sufficient grounds to claim that a sworn lawyer specializing in the provision of various legal services incited the family doctor to falsify an extract from the medical card of the lawyer’s colleague – a sworn lawyer.
On the other hand, a sworn lawyer probably submitted the fake statement about her health condition and the doctor’s instructions to the Vidzeme district court, thereby delaying the court session and delaying the proceedings in the civil case, KNAB informed.
KNAB drew attention to the fact that incapacity for work sheets, extracts and various other opinions on the state of health of a physical person, provided by medical personnel, are considered documents in the sense of the Criminal Law. Thus, the preparation and issuance of a statement containing false information about the patient’s actual state of health is treated as document falsification.
KNAB has urged the prosecutor’s office to bring charges against a sworn lawyer for instigating the falsification of a document exempting him from duties, as well as against a family doctor for forging a document and against a sworn lawyer for using a forged document.
Latvijas Television’s “de facto” program previously reported that the aforementioned lawyers are attorney Edgars Atlācis and Agnese Kauce, representatives of the law firm “Atlācis and partners” registered in Valmiera, who were suspended from work by the Latvian Council of Sworn Advocates on September 10 on suspicion of possible criminal offenses.
The most severe punishment for such crimes can be imprisonment for up to one year.
Currently, the prosecutor’s office, as the initiator of the process, must decide on the further course of this criminal process, which began on June 20, 2024. If the prosecutor’s office decides to file an indictment, the Saeima will have to decide on the permission to start a criminal prosecution.
The deputy “de facto” confirmed that he was at KNAB in the summer. He knows lawyer Atlāci, although he is not a patient in Jakovina’s practice, but one of the lawyers in his office is.
2024-10-02 07:42:30