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Truksnis and Raitums suspects in Corruption Prevention Bureau's criminal procedure

BC, Riga, 06.10.2016.Print version
Jurmala Mayor Gatis Truksnis (Greens/Farmers) has the status of a suspect in a criminal procedure on party financing violations that is being investigated by the Corruption Prevention Bureau, as Truksnis' attorney Janis Rozenbergs told LETA.

Truksnis was released from custody this morning, he is not allowed to leave the country or meet certain persons, said Rozenbergs. Truksnis has not been suspended from Jurmala mayor's office.


Jorens Raitums, who was in the past associated with the For Latvia From The Heart political party, was also released from custody this morning. His attorney Pavels Rebenoks told LETA that Raitums, too, had the status of a suspect in the same criminal procedure, and he was not allowed to leave Latvia also.


Rebenoks added that attorneys currently had very little information about the case. They only know that Truksnis and Raitums are suspected of violations of party financing regulations, but no further details.


Famous Latvian businessman Julijs Krumins, another suspect in the criminal procedure, was also released this morning. Businessman has the status of a suspect in two criminal procedures, as Krumins' attorney Egons Rusanovs told LETA today.






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