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MG Baltic president questioned by Lithuania's Special Investigation Service

BC, Vilnius, 08.09.2016.Print version
MG Baltic president questioned by Lithuania's Special Investigation Service.

"We can confirm that he has arrived for questioning," told the service's spokeswoman Renata Saulyte.

 

Mockus is being questioned in the case of political corruption where peddling influence, bribery and unlawful enrichment suspicions have been brought against the former leader of the opposition Liberal Movement Eligijus Masiulis, while MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis is suspected of bribery, peddling influence and unlawful possession of a state secret.

 

In an earlier interview, Mockus has described the political corruption scandal as the biggest blow to the concern's reputation, adding it did not have a direct impact on the business. He said there were no reasons to suspend Kurlianskis, the head of the group's media operations, from his post, stressing that the media channels of the group would not be used for defense in the investigation.

 

In Mockus' words, he was not persuaded by the motives of the corruption crime presented by prosecutors. He said the probe was linked with the upcoming general elections.

 

Law enforcement officials suspect that Masiulis accepted a bribe of 106,000 euros for himself and other individuals from Kurlianskis in exchange for "certain decisions favorable and financially beneficial to the group." Masiulis says that he borrowed 90,000 euros from Kurlianskis as a loan for a real estate project in Nida. The loan was not notarized.

 

Kurlianskis is chairman of the management board at the Laisvas ir Nepriklausomas Kanalas Group, the operator of several TV channels, and at Alfa Media, the operator of the Alfa.lt news portal. Lithuanian law-enforcement have banned Mockus and Kurlianskis from contacting each other.

 

Romanas Raulynaitis, a member of the management board at MG Baltic, was also questioned as special witness in the case. Under Lithuanian laws, special witnesses are persons when data about their complicity in a crime is insufficient for bringing suspicions against them.

 






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