At a Tuesday hearing at Vilnius Regional Court, the lawyer reminded in her closing speech that the Labor Party as such ceased to exist on May 14 and she has nobody to represent.
"At the moment, there's no Labor Party, its activities ended. Following the party reorganization, there's no subjectivity, and if there's no subjectivity, there's no corpus delicti," the lawyer said.
In her words, the case seems to have been given too much prominence and there's a feeling that there's a wish to prosecute the party at any price.
In the middle of May, the Labor Party merged with a non-influential Laborist Party and subsequently became the Labor Party (laborists), led by MP Vytautas Gapšys who is one of the defendants in the Labor Party's fraudulent bookkeeping case.
The Labor Party is charged with failing to include more than 24 million litas (EUR 6.9m) in income and 23 million litas in spending into its books in the 2004-2006. The Labor Party's members strongly deny the accusations, saying the case is politically-motivated.
