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The prosecution went to court with a forged document and was defeated
A recent ruling by the Tallinn Circuit Court upheld the decision of a county court acquitting the former head of the money laundering prevention department of the Business Bank of bribery on charges of bribery under § 4023(1) of the Criminal Code.
The district court dismissed the appeal filed by the prosecutor, finding that it was general and not based on concrete evidence. The court rejected the prosecutor’s argument that the district court had failed to previously consider and evaluate “facts and evidence that undermined the defense and the court’s version of events”. According to the Court, the evidence collected in the case did not establish an inequitable bribery arrangement, i.e. an equivalence relationship between the alleged briber and the alleged bribe taker. Furthermore, the district court also agreed with the conclusions and legal assessments of the defence counsel, the lawyer Aivar Pilve, and the county court that the charge brought against the defendant was based on a forged job description, which the defence counsel and the defendant had already clearly pointed out in the pre-trial proceedings.
Read the fuller review of the criminal case:
https://www.aripaev.ee/uudised/2024/09/20/prokuratuur-laks-kohtusse-voltsitud-dokumendiga-ja-sai-luua
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