2024-08-07 23:11:47
“As far as I know, the audit was carried out in the municipality. I have repeatedly asked the controller if he has any comments for me, the answer was that the audit did not find any and there are no comments”, A. Vyšniauskas said to Eltai.
“It’s strange to me how you can audit some people and not others. I wonder about that, I don’t think it was. In the whole process, it will be necessary to clarify with both the municipality and the controller. Weird, just weird,” he added.
However, as J. Vaičiulis stated to Eltai, after consulting with lawyers, A. Vyšniauskas and also 2020 were not evaluated. expenses allocated to the activities of Vaida Giraitytė-Juškevičienė, a council member elected to the Seimas. According to him, this was prevented by the legal immunity applied to parliamentarians. However, A. Vyšniauskas himself rejects such arguments.
“It can not be. What does the audit have to do with the legal immunity of Seimas members. That controller is talking nonsense. There are, apparently, some wrong decisions, wrong steps and that’s it. It’s strange to me. My knowledge has always been that a detailed audit is carried out in consultation with law enforcement authorities, and I had no complaints,” the MP said.
“I don’t know what the circumstances are in that case, what the accusations are against me. When I get that information, which will probably be after immunity is lifted next week, then we’ll sit down with the lawyers and see if we need to request those audits,” he added.
The former controller Eltai also stated that after Andriis Tapinas started the “Skaidrinam” initiative in Lithuania, A. Vyšniauskas returned part of the funds used for the council member’s activities to the municipality. The politician himself refuses to comment on these circumstances, but emphasizes that he returned the funds even before the performance of “Skaidrinam” in Marijampole.
“I returned it until the “Skaidrinam” campaign started to investigate in Marijampolė. I don’t want to comment on some details because I don’t know if it’s part of the ongoing investigation or not. When I see the data, then I will be able to comment,” A. Vyšniauskas assured.
ELTA reminds that on Thursday it was reported that the Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė applied to the Seimas, requesting to cancel the legal immunity of the MP, former conservative A. Vyšniauskas.
The General Prosecutor’s Office reported that A. Vyšniauskas may have submitted forged documents to the Marijampolė municipality administration regarding the reimbursement of his activity expenses as a member of the council. According to the prosecutors, on the basis of the documents, more than 2.1 thousand were paid to the politician unjustifiably and illegally. euros. The parliament will take the final decision on the destruction of immunity of a member of the Seimas.
Shortly after the announcement of the General Prosecutor’s Office, A. Vyšniauskas announced that he was suspending his membership in the TS-LKD and was resigning from the position of the elder of the conservative faction in the Seimas. The politician also indicated that he will no longer continue his activities in the parliamentary Law and Order Committee.
2024-08-07 23:11:47