2024-07-15 19:56:58
According to the news portal, V. Bieliauskas resigned from his position at the beginning of July by agreement of both parties, after AmberGrid paid him a 3-month severance pay – the average remuneration of a middle manager with taxes amounts to 4.5 thousand. euros.
R. Zienka, who left EPSO-G at the beginning of June, also received severance compensation for the same period, whose severance pay, according to the portal, amounted to slightly more than 24 thousand. EUR before taxes. As it is announced, R. Zienka was one of the first to receive information about possible forgeries of parts in the GIPL gas pipeline a few years ago, and he also drew up a risk management plan for the gas pipeline.
R. Zienka himself told 15min in February that he did not see his responsibility for the installation of non-certified parts in the strategic gas pipeline, because the risks were controlled and the pipeline was built on time.
However, as Mindaugas Keizeris, the head of EPSO-G, later assured the portal, “currently ongoing processes and decisions regarding the replacement of gas pipeline details clearly prove that the risks are not under control, so questions of responsibility inevitably arise.”
After conducting the inspection, the State Energy Regulatory Council (VERT) ordered AmberGrid to replace 123 out of all 1,022 fittings in the Lithuanian-Polish gas pipeline (GIPL) in April, and to check the rest. According to the energy regulator, the installed parts do not have certificates of origin and are made of steel banned in the European Union (EU) at the time.
As the portal 15min announced, these gas pipeline parts could have been transported through Estonia from the Eterno factory in Russia.
The gas pipeline operator also stated that the responsibility for the installation of the Russian parts falls on “Alvora”, which performed the contract work, which has to replace these parts at its own expense. In response to these accusations, Alvora appealed to the General Prosecutor’s Office regarding the possible spread of untrue information about the company’s unreliability and threat to national security by representatives of Energy Minister Dainius Kreivis, Amber Grid, VERT and EPSO-G.
The main gas pipeline started operating on May 1, 2022. Its installation cost a total of about 500 million. euros. About 60 percent of them funds were allocated by the European Commission, and Lithuania allocated about 116 million to this project. euros.
2024-07-15 19:56:58