As reported by the General Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, a former employee of the National Land Service (NŽT) Molėtai division, V. B., who helped her and another person illegally acquire ownership rights to the mentioned plots, was recently punished by a court criminal order for abuse of office, fraud, and document forgery.
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The pre-trial investigation was initiated in the spring of 2025, following a request from NŽT to conduct a pre-trial investigation regarding a possible criminal offense.
Representatives of the service turned to law enforcement after doubts arose about the authenticity of some documents and the justification of decisions made by the division’s employees during the reorganization and the merging of the Molėtai division with the Panevėžys district division.
During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that in 2021, the then senior specialist of the Molėtai division, V. B., forged documents to show that a Vilnius resident, D. G., was the rightful heir to 65.65 hectares of land located in the Anykščiai district, although no documents confirming this were presented.
Since it was not possible to recover this land plot in kind, allegedly, in 2021, documents were prepared for the supposed heir, according to which she acquired ownership rights to seven plots in the Anykščiai, Rokiškis, Utena, and Švenčionys districts.
For her assistance, the accused NŽT employee V. B. was paid 30 thousand euros, and she herself sold these conclusions regarding the land for nearly 65 thousand euros to third parties.
D. G. was charged with document forgery and aiding abuse of office. She did not admit guilt during the pre-trial investigation.
The pre-trial investigation concerning the actions of the former senior specialist of the NŽT Molėtai division, V. B., was separated from this case. During the investigation, another case was identified where the mentioned employee, having forged documents, helped another person acquire 22 hectares of land in the Molėtai district in 2022, receiving 14 thousand euros as compensation.
V. B. was charged with abuse of office, document forgery, and fraud. She fully admitted her guilt, so the prosecutor leading the pre-trial investigation applied to the court for the case to be concluded by a criminal order.
On July 22, by a criminal order issued by the Utena branch of the Utena District Court, V. B. was fined a consolidated amount of 10.5 thousand euros, which was reduced by one-third to 7 thousand euros. She was also subjected to a criminal penalty measure – confiscation of 44 thousand euros. The court satisfied the NŽT claim, so V. B. will also have to compensate the service for damages amounting to 8 thousand euros.
The pre-trial investigation was led by a prosecutor from the Criminal Prosecution Division of the Panevėžys District Prosecutor’s Office, and the investigation was conducted by officers of the Financial Crime Investigation Service.
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