2024-05-02 04:51:04
At the beginning of April, the former head of “Vaisingum klinikas” Algirdas Usonis, the son-in-law of the president Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, was found by the court to have fraudulently organized the management of financial accounting of this company and provided incorrect data on income and profit, he was fined 34 thousand 800 euros.
The Klaipėda District Court has adopted a criminal order, its legal force is equivalent to a sentence. The criminal order is passed without oral hearings and without the defendants denying their guilt.
Algirdas Šakinis, the former finance director of Vaisingumo Klinikas, was found guilty of the same crimes as A. Usonis by the same criminal order, and was fined 34,300 euros.
At that time, a fine of 90,000 euros was imposed on the Lithuanian, US and Israeli company Vaisingumo Klinika.
The court’s criminal order becomes effective within 14 days if it is not appealed.
The representative of the Klaipėda District Court, Dovilė Saulėnienė, informed Elta that the court’s criminal order came into effect last week, on April 22, and the court received documents that the said fines were paid.
The nine employees who helped in the fraudulent management of the company’s accounts were previously investigated and released from criminal liability on bail. All of these persons paid contributions of 2,000-2,750 euros to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the totality of the data collected during the investigation allows us to suspect that, in order to avoid taxes and acting according to a pre-conceived criminal plan, the persons who held leading positions in the company instructed the employees responsible for accepting money not to include part of the income received from patients in the company’s accounting.
It is estimated that 9 employees working in the company’s branches in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda may not have registered more than 711 thousand in the accounting in the period from January 2019 to February 2021. euros received for services provided to patients.
During the investigation, data was obtained that unofficial wages were paid in cash to the company’s employees from the aforementioned unaccounted money for more than two years. According to the research, more than half a million euros could have been paid to employees in this way.
According to the data collected by law enforcement officials, untrue data about the above-mentioned company’s 2019, 2020 and 2021 income, profit and assets were recorded in declarations and submitted to state-authorized institutions. As a result, it is believed that the payment of almost 360 thousand was avoided. EUR mandatory fees.
“They covered all claims against Sodra and the State Tax Inspectorate. The process already took a long time and it would have taken even longer if there were obstacles to the adoption of criminal orders”, Yevgenijus Michailovskij, the prosecutor of the Klaipėda District Prosecutor’s Office, who led the investigation, told Eltai.
“Envelopes” appeared due to the deterioration of the performance
The established criminal order states that in 2018 at the end of the year, the company’s performance deteriorated, so A. Usonis and A. Šakinis decided together to pay the salary without including it in the accounting.
A. Usonis instructed the workers of the Vilnius branch, TG and SM, not to register the cash received for the services provided by the company in the cash register, but to put it in a document holder and hand it over at the end of work. Together with the money, the workers left a note stating the date, the service provided and the amount of money received.
About 20-35 percent this amount was allocated to pay the salaries of doctors. Other employees of the company were paid about 100 euros per month without being reflected in the accounting. A. Usonis paid unofficial salaries to the employees of the Vilnius branch, and A. Šakinis – to the employees of the Kaunas branch. At the Klaipėda branch, the administrators EB and EU transferred the money not recorded in the cash register to A. Usonis once a month. In the Klaipėda branch, he received from 6,000 to 13,000 euros of unaccounted money per month. Together with the money, the workers handed over the list of the work done and the money received.
The defendant calculated and paid the unaccounted wages to the doctors and employees who worked in the Klaipėda branch on the same principle as in the Vilnius branch. In the Kaunas branch, the financial director A. Šakinis used to collect unaccounted income and pay the unaccounted wages, in the Kaunas branch he received from 10,000 to 14,000 euros of unaccounted money per month.
At least 6,000 euros per month was allocated to the employees of the Klaipėda branch, at least 10,000 euros for Vilnius employees, and at least 5,000 euros per month for Kaunas employees.
VJ, a woman working as a midwife-registrar at the Kaunas branch, told the officers during the interview that payment by bank card is not possible at the clinic. Patients paid in cash, which the receptionists recorded with the cash register.
At the beginning of the work, VJ used to register all the received money with a cash register, but soon, on the instructions of the financial director, part of the received money was no longer registered.
Since then, in cases where patients did not visit the clinic for the first time and did not require a cash receipt, the paid cash was not recorded in the cash register. VJ used to put the money not included in the accounting into a drawer in the cash register, and at the end of the work, he took it to office 8 and put it in the closet.
Along with the money, she would put the doctor’s consultation slips in which she marked the amounts not recorded by the cash register with a “tick” so that the finance director could keep track of the unrecorded money. Her colleagues did the same. VJ received 310 euros a month for half-time, they were transferred to a bank account, and in addition he received from 100 to 300 euros in an envelope
The gynecologist told the officials that she received her salary – 700 euros – before taxes, by bank transfer in 2018. at the end of the year, she agreed with director A. Usonis that she would be paid a supplement to her salary – a cash incentive, she received 120-400 euros in a sealed envelope. The envelope was handed to her or found on the desk in the office.
Another gynecologist also indicated that she was paid a supplement to her salary in cash – from 100 to 300 euros. At that time, the obstetrician-gynecologist said that her employment contract stipulated a salary of 550 euros before taxes. In 2019, she agreed with A. Usonis on the payment of an incentive, a supplement to the salary in cash. The smallest salary supplement in cash was about 50 euros, and the largest was about 280 euros. The money was handed to her in a sealed envelope or someone placed it on the desk in the office.
During the investigation, the officers also interviewed female patients of the Fertility Clinic. One of them indicated that from February 2019 visited the Kaunas branch. Part of the procedures and visits were reimbursed by the state, and the other part was paid for by the state. In 2019, he visited the clinic’s branch in Vilnius, paid at least 400 euros for the procedures performed, and also bought medicines for which he paid at least 900 euros.
At the Kaunas branch of the clinic, during the entire treatment period from 2019, he paid at least 1,000 euros. Both in Kaunas and Vilnius, he paid for the services provided in cash only, settled at the clinic’s administration, handed over the money to the administrator, and never received a receipt.
Mystery shoppers from law enforcement and court sanctions
In 2020, the Klaipėda District Court allowed criminal intelligence actions to be carried out: secretly entering the premises of UAB “Vaisingum klinikos” Klaipėda, Kaunas, and Vilnius branches in order to inspect them, take accounting documents and other items relevant to the investigation. It is recorded in the protocol of the performance of criminal intelligence actions that EB and EU transfer to director A. Usonis the money received from clients for the services provided to them.
It was also recorded that in the Klaipėda branch at the reception, the employees VP, ES and EB did not always record the money received from patients with the cash register. After analyzing the videos, the officials found that employees of the company’s Klaipėda branch, for example, in 2020. December. included services for the amount of 4,276 euros in the accounting, and did not include the services for the amount of 4,342 euros, and from 2020 October 1 until 2020 October 31 included in the accounting services for the amount of 12,781 euros, but did not include the amount of 14,068 euros.
Judge of the Criminal Division of the Klaipėda District Court in 2020. June 30 the order allowed to secretly enter the premises of the company’s Klaipėda branch, to secretly inspect orders, accounting documents, settlement slips, and other documents relevant to the investigation.
in 2020 July 7 In the Klaipėda branch, a secret purchase of services was carried out: the person who performed criminal intelligence actions was met at the reception desk by the receptionist EU, she took a 100 euro note for the services provided, unlocked and opened the drawer of the cash register with the key, put money in, gave a return of 10 euros, but did not record the paid money in the cash register and secretly the customer was not given a cash register receipt.
The law enforcement announced the investigation started in 2021. in February Then, after about half a dozen searches, 500,000 were found. Euros in cash, the officers showed video footage to prove it – bundles of Euro banknotes laid out on the floor. It was reported that nine persons, including managers, were detained, and a total of 12 persons were charged.
As reported by the police, in the pre-trial investigation searches were carried out in the premises of the company located in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, in the residences of the arrested persons, vehicles and elsewhere.
The pre-trial investigation was led and organized by the Department of Organized Crime and Corruption Investigations of the Klaipėda District Prosecutor’s Office, and was carried out by the officers of the Economic Crimes Investigation Board of the Klaipėda County Chief Police Commissariat together with the Criminal Police Bureau, the Kaunas County Police Economic Crimes Investigation Board, the State Tax Inspectorate and the Financial Crimes investigation service officers.
In January of this year, it was announced that Arturas Nastartavičius was appointed to lead the company, and the clinics operating in the three largest cities of the country – Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda – will henceforth be called “Medicijas”.
2024-05-02 04:51:04