2024-05-27 14:58:08
In court docket debates, the prosecutor requested to condemn every of them to 4 years in jail, LETA beforehand reported. It has additionally been requested that Magonis be sentenced to partial confiscation of property, and Osinovskis – a ban on participation in state and native authorities procurement for 3 years. The prosecutor’s workplace has additionally requested to acknowledge 499,500 euros, which had been discovered when the 2 had been arrested, as prison property and to confiscate it for the good thing about the state.
The Riga Regional Court docket plans to proceed listening to the case on July 29 and July 31, after listening to the protection speeches of the legal professionals, the LETA company realized in court docket. After that, it’s deliberate that the court docket hearings will probably be held on September 18 and 19 with rejoinders and the defendants may have the final phrase.
On the identical time, the court docket knowledgeable that the court docket panel had the chance to proceed listening to the case sooner – on June 3 and 5, however because of the workload of Osinovskis and Magoņas’ protection attorneys, which had been recorded within the court docket session calendar of the Court docket Info System, it was not attainable to proceed listening to the case on today.
The court docket panel has famous that in accordance with Article 28.6 of the Legislation “On Jurisdiction”, the mark made within the calendar of court docket periods concerning the dedication of the date and time of the court docket session is binding on the courts when planning instances with the participation of the sworn lawyer or prosecutor, whose participation in one other court docket session has already been famous by the court docket sitting within the calendar.
The Vidzeme district court docket beforehand absolutely acquitted each defendants, however the prosecutor’s workplace filed an enchantment protest towards this verdict.
The idea of the indictment for Magonis was a set of two actions, that’s, the prosecutor’s workplace believed that cash was transferred to him in the summertime of 2015 with the intention to facilitate the acquisition of 4 diesel locomotives by “LDz” subsidiary firm SIA “LDz Ritošā sasuta serviss” from AS “Skinest Rail” owned by businessman Osinovskis .
Additionally, the prosecutor’s workplace believes that Magonis promised to fulfill with the then president of “Russian Railways” Vladimir Yakunin and to realize a positive determination within the pursuits of Osinovskis, specifically that the Russian locomotives be repaired on the Daugavpils manufacturing facility. The entire quantity of the bribe was about half one million euros, the prosecutor’s workplace believed.
The Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) arrested Magoni on August 6, 2015.
The case was examined within the court docket of first occasion by choose Kārlis Jansons, who after the decision said that it was not inside the competence of Magonis to cope with the acquisition of locomotives, as a result of for this goal there’s a subsidiary firm of “LDz” “LDz rolling inventory service”, which itself dealt with the acquisition of 4 locomotives properly even with out Magonis involvement.
Relating to the second a part of Magonis’s indictment, the court docket discovered that Magonis didn’t meet with the managers of “Russian Railways” as a Latvian state official, however as a result of he had private and pleasant relations with the main officers of “Russian Railways”, Jansons identified.
Based on the choose, the actions of Maonis in “Russian Railways” are by no means associated to his former duties. Magonis’ official duties didn’t embody taking good care of Osinovski’s enterprise pursuits, and Osinovski allegedly gave cash to Magonis as a personal particular person for lobbying his pursuits in “Russian Railways”. Subsequently, the composition of the crime has not been established for both of the 2 accused crimes, the choose is satisfied.
Taking into consideration the above, Jansons identified that the prosecutor’s workplace didn’t gather a ample quantity of proof within the accusations.
The defendants themselves don’t admit guilt. Estonian millionaire Osinovskis doesn’t admit guilt within the crime of corruption charged towards him, though he doesn’t deny that he gave cash to Magoni, however states that it was supposed for an additional goal.
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