The pre-trial investigation was led by a prosecutor from the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office, and the investigation was carried out by officers of the Special Investigation Service.
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The data collected during the pre-trial investigation reasonably indicate that K. Rečkovas, while being a member of the Druskininkai Municipal Council, abused his office for personal financial gain, knowing that he was entitled to receive compensation for expenses related to his activities as a Council member and knowing that he was required to account for the use of such compensation.
From January 2019 to April 2023, he systematically forged genuine documents – Expense Reports, recording knowingly false data about expenses not related to his own, but to other persons unrelated to his activities as a Council member, including fuel expenses, as well as expenses for food products and other items.
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He submitted these reports and the receipts allegedly supporting them, obtained from various gas stations, parcel lockers, and acquaintances operating in Lithuania, to the Druskininkai Municipality administration, from which he unlawfully and fraudulently acquired someone else’s property – the property of Druskininkai Municipality – worth over 8 thousand euros.
K. Rečkovas is accused of the fact that by such intentional and long-lasting illegal actions, he not only diminished the authority of a Council member and public trust, harmed the image of the Druskininkai Municipal Council, diminished its prestige and the title of a state politician, but also caused significant non-material damage and material damage exceeding 8 thousand euros to the Druskininkai Municipality.
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The case has been transferred to the Alytus District Court for consideration.
