{"id":20143,"date":"2025-02-28T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=20143"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:06:52","slug":"20250228-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20250228-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on the case study of the Lithuanian courts' practice in corruption cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The research conducted by Dr Salom\u0117ja Zaksait\u0117, a researcher at the LCSS Law Institute, \"Analysis of the Lithuanian Judicial Practice in Corruption Cases in the Aspects of Standard of Proof, Evidence and Sentencing\" has been published on the Lithuanian Courts website.<\/p>

The case study analysed Lithuanian court practice in corruption cases under articles 225 (bribery), 226 (influence peddling) and 227 (bribery) of the Lithuanian criminal code. The main objective of the study was to assess the implementation of the criminal policy on corruption offences and, in line with the comments made by international organisations to Lithuania, the application of evidentiary standards and the severity of sentences imposed by the courts were also considered.<\/p>

In the research report, Dr Salom\u0117ja Zaksait\u0117 identifies the main factors that distinguish corruption offences from other offences, such as the secrecy of the activities and the absence of a \"traditional\" victim who gives initial testimony. The researcher identifies the weaknesses of the handling of corruption cases, where the law is applied too formally, often with a reductionist approach, and where there is a lack of interdisciplinary (economic, criminological, political science) knowledge in the contextualisation of the offence and its circumstances. However, Zaksait\u0117 points out that the shortcomings listed above are more related to the general legal culture and the level (standard) of proceedings, rather than to the standard of proof per se. The standard of proof, which presupposes that there should be no reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the convicted person, is the same in Lithuania for all categories of criminal cases.<\/p>

The author hopes that the study will contribute to the identification of trends and challenges in the existing case law, thus aiming to improve the application of the law in corruption-related (criminal) cases.<\/p>

The report of Dr. S. Zaksait\u0117's research (in lithuanian) can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>

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Lietuvos teism\u0173 portale buvo pavie\u0161intas LSMC\u00a0Teis\u0117s instituto mokslinink\u0117s dr.\u00a0Salom\u0117jos Zaksait\u0117s atliktas tyrimas \u201eLietuvos teism\u0173 praktikos korupcinio pob\u016bd\u017eio bylose tyrimas (analiz\u0117) \u012frodym\u0173 ir \u012frodin\u0117jimo bei skiriam\u0173 bausmi\u0173 aspektais\u201c. Tyrimo metu buvo analizuojama Lietuvos teism\u0173 praktika korupcinio pob\u016bd\u017eio bylose pagal Lietuvos Respublikos baud\u017eiamojo kodekso 225 (ky\u0161ininkavimas), 226 (prekyba poveikiu) ir 227 (papirkimas) straipsnius. Pagrindinis tyrimo tikslas\u00a0\u2013 \u012fvertinti baud\u017eiamosios politikos d\u0117l korupcini\u0173 nusikaltim\u0173 \u012fgyvendinim\u0105, taip pat, atliepiant tarptautini\u0173 organizacij\u0173 Lietuvai teiktas pastabas, buvo vertinamas \u012frodin\u0117jimo standart\u0173 taikymas ir teism\u0173 skiriam\u0173 bausmi\u0173 grie\u017etumas. Tyrimo ataskaitoje dr.\u00a0Salom\u0117ja Zaksait\u0117 \u012fvardija pagrindinius korupcinio pob\u016bd\u017eio veik\u0173 bruo\u017eus, skirian\u010dius \u0161ias veikas nuo kit\u0173 teis\u0117s pa\u017eeidim\u0173, pavyzd\u017eiui, veiksm\u0173 slaptumas bei \u201etradicin\u0117s\u201c aukos, duodan\u010dios pirminius parodymus, nebuvimas. Mokslinink\u0117 pateikia korupcinio pob\u016bd\u017eio byl\u0173 nagrin\u0117jimo tr\u016bkumus, kai teis\u0117 taikoma pernelyg formaliai, neretai vadovaujamasi redukcionistiniu po\u017ei\u016briu ir stokojama tarpdisciplinini\u0173 (ekonomini\u0173, kriminologini\u0173, politologini\u0173) \u017eini\u0173 kontekstualizuojant veik\u0105 ir jos aplinkybes. Vis tiktai, S.\u00a0Zaksait\u0117 pa\u017eymi, i\u0161vardyti tr\u016bkumai yra labiau susij\u0119 su bendra teisine kult\u016bra ir byl\u0173 nagrin\u0117jimo lygmeniu (standartu), o ne su \u012frodin\u0117jimo standartu pa\u010diu savaime. \u012erodin\u0117jimo standartas, suponuojantis, kad d\u0117l nuteistojo kaltumo netur\u0117t\u0173 likti joki\u0173 pagr\u012fst\u0173 abejoni\u0173, Lietuvoje yra vienodas vis\u0173 kategorij\u0173 baud\u017eiamosiose bylose. Autor\u0117 viliasi, kad tyrimas prisid\u0117s prie esamos teism\u0173 praktikos tendencij\u0173 ir i\u0161\u0161\u016bki\u0173 identifikavimo, taip siekiant tobulinti teis\u0117s taikym\u0105 nagrin\u0117jant korupcinio pob\u016bd\u017eio (baud\u017eiam\u0105sias) bylas. Dr.\u00a0S.\u00a0Zaksait\u0117s atlikto tyrimo ataskait\u0105 galite rasti \u010dia. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20148,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions\/20148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}