Abraitis – bad news from court

The applicant sought to annul the decision to temporarily suspend his medical practice license.

According to Judge Audrius Grauelis, who heard the case, the complaint of V. Abraitis was dismissed as unfounded.

The court found that the decision to suspend the doctor’s license for his medical practice was made on the basis of objective factual data received, including information from the Special Investigation Service and the Klaipėda District Court, and such a decision was lawful.

In the present case, the defendant is the State Health Care Accreditation Service under the Ministry of Health.

The Office provided data on alleged criminal actions committed by the physician in his professional duties.

The court emphasized that since Abraitis’ fault is not currently proven and a pre -trial investigation was underway, but the Office was right to have ruled that there was no reason to cancel the license. However, in the light of the content of the suspicions and the court order, the right and legitimately suspended the license until 2025, in accordance with the applicable legislation. March 20

The court also emphasized that the Office was entitled to decide on its own initiative on the validity of the license, regardless of whether the STT had made such a request. In assessing the applicant’s claims regarding the alleged violation of the right to be heard, the court noted that the Office had made the decision on the basis of all necessary and objective evidence, so that the applicant’s hearing in this case would only have been a formality and did not affect the content of the decision.

The doctor appealed against the director of the service in 2024. October 9 the order which suspended its license until 2025. March 20 According to the applicant, the decision was made in violation of the procedures – in a hurry, without hearing his opinion and not collecting all the factual data.

The decision of the Regional Administrative Court may be appealed.

Vytautas Abraitis/Photo by Vytis Šulinskas

ELTA recalls that the Kaunas Regional Court dismissed V. Abraitis’ complaint against a temporary prohibition to engage in work. In March last year, the Kaunas District Court extended this prohibition for half a year – until June 20.

In a criminal case that has reached Kaunas District Court, V. Abraitis has been charged with abuse, unlawful information collection of a private life.

According to the pre -trial investigation, the accused, Having acquired the license of an obstetrician-gynecologist, providing outpatient and inpatient health care services in public and private health care institutions in Kaunas, he secretly filmed patients during consultations.

According to the prosecution, the pre -trial investigation into these offenses was launched by another pre -trial investigation related to the suspected bribery and received data on videos stored on the accused’s mobile phone.

It was established that from 2018 June to 2023 In June, about 20 patients of this physician were filmed. No data on the distribution of videos were received during the pre -trial investigation.

The accused has been temporarily suspended from office and has been suspended the right to engage in the activity of a obstetrician-gynecologist. The prosecutor’s decision to ensure the compensation of the victims is restricted to the property of the accused.

The indictment states that the doctor had caused serious non -pecuniary damage to patients by his actions, as well as the prestige of medical profession, the authority of medical institutions and the health system of the Republic of Lithuania.

Mr Abraitis, who has been accused of accusations, says that the information provided by law enforcement is very tendent and manipulative, without reality, he proposes to wait for the judgment.

The doctor’s case will be commenced in June in closed court hearings.