Former
director of the Department of Credit Institution Supervision of the Bank of
Lithuania Kazimieras Ramonas was concealing from the BL management the
information about the property of bankrupt Snoras Bank in Switzerland for a few
years.delfi.lt portal writes that it was established by the General Prosecutor’s Office during pre-trial investigation.
“Ramonas is accused of the fact that being the then director
of the Department of Credit Institution Supervision of the Bank of Lithuania he
deliberately allowed Snoras Bank to conceal from the BL the information about
the assets of the bank placed in the Swiss banks for a long time, and because
of such Ramonas’s intentional acts financial position of Snoras Bank had not
been timely identified”, - told the reporters Darius Stankevicius, the
prosecutor of the Department of Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation of
the General Prosecutor's Office.
According
to him, Ramonas was concealing this information for several years: “More
than a year”.
Meanwhile,
Ramonas argues that he is innocent and has become a “scapegoat”.
On
Friday, Vilnius District Court was to begin consideration of Ramonas’s criminal
case, but it was adjourned. Ramonas was dismissed from the central bank shortly
after Snoras nationalization in November 2011.
