Photo of fog balance.
Kaunas district prosecutors concluded that more than EUR 312,000 was fraudulently tricked into the Kaunas Energija account after receiving logins from the accountant, who allowed them to connect not only to her personal account, but also to our account, the portal 15min reports on Monday.
Accounts logins were the same when connecting to personal and Kaunas energija accounts. When she was going to recover the money allegedly earned in crypto-currencies, she created connections that, as they say, allowed her to connect not only to her account, but also to other accounts, prosecutors explained to 15min.
According to the prosecutors, they received a claim from Kaunas Energia that the employees of the company were being assured to invest by persons pretending to be financial consultants. The personal accounts of the accountant were not embezzled.
Before this event, some banks used to have only one employee’s approval. After the event, all banks are closed for two days. According to the available data, the money was not transferred to the accountant’s account, prosecutors added.
According to the pre-trial investigation, four transfers to accounts in Lithuania were detained on the same day. The amount of almost EUR 133,000 was allocated to the energy of Kaunas as a whole. The other two transfers were made to bank accounts opened in the Netherlands and Poland. The larger amount of money from the latter account was divided and transferred to several accounts in Poland and Germany.
The pre-trial investigation began in November 2023 by the officials of the Kaunas County Chief Police Commissariat, who received a claim from Kaunas Energia that an employee of the company had been assured of investments by persons pretending to be financial consultants.
Current financial transactions were carried out in the company’s bank accounts, physical Lithuanian and foreign bank accounts. The amount of more than 312,000 EUR was lured into the Kaunas energy account by means of fraud.
Kaunas energija is the second largest regional electricity production and supply company in Lithuania, 92.84% of its shares are owned by Kaunas municipality.
It is prohibited to reproduce the information of the news agency BNS in public information media and on Internet websites without the consent of UAB “BNS”.
Select the companies and topics you are interested in and we will inform you in a personal newsletter as soon as they are mentioned in Business, Sodra, Registry Center, etc. in altos.
Tags: Prosecutors EUR embezzled Kaunos enerjija receiving access accountants
