The Anti-Corruption and Prevention Bureau (KNAB) has detained the prosecutor of the Jelgava Prosecutor’s Office this month, according to information available to the agency LETA.
Vida Kravcova, Chief Prosecutor of the Jelgava Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed that the KNAB had conducted a search of the Prosecutor’s Office this month.
During his time at the KNAB Prosecutor’s Office, he was on leave and was not informed of the reasons for the search. That is why Kravcova has only learned about what happened from her colleagues.
The Chief Prosecutor also does not know whether any of his colleagues have been detained. She assumed that if this happened, the KNAB would inform the prosecutor’s office of what had happened.
Currently, the prosecutor’s office continues to work in the usual way.
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KNAB confirmed that there is a criminal proceeding in the office’s records, in which prosecutor officials are involved. In order to obtain additional evidence and not harm the interests of the investigation, KNAB is currently unable to provide further information.
The LETA archive shows that the KNAB last caught a prosecutor in a possible crime in 2015. In this case, Vilnis Ulmis, the former Chief Prosecutor of the Financial and Economic Crime Investigation Prosecutor’s Office, and Vladimir Krupsky, the former Prosecutor of the Financial and Economic Crime Investigation Prosecutor’s Office, are accused of trying to demand a bribe from an acquaintance of Ulm Reverta employee – for revocation of seizure of property Reverta real estate in criminal proceedings under Krupsky’s supervision.
The Latgale Suburb Court of the City of Riga will continue to hear this case on October 7.
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