A month ago, Lithuania was the first country in Europe to grant a specialised banking license to the company Revolut, which caused member of Seimas Stasys Jakeliūnas suspicions. The MP contacted the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) and State Security Department (VSD), asking them to check the financial company’s business model and links to Russian politicians, lrt.lt writes. […]
On Wednesday, Revolut founder and head Nikolay Storonsky has released an open letter, where he rejects accusations of the company’s potential links to the Kremlin that have surfaced in the media, lrt.lt writes. […]
In response to LRT information on the situation over “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis‘ Agrokoncernas‘ import of fertiliser, the company published a press release on Monday. It states that supposedly “there are attempts to draw the company into political games.” According to the company, state institutions, lacking real answers regarding EU sanctions, are transferring responsibility to businesses, lrt.lt writes. […]
The Special Investigation Service (STT) has initiated a pre-trial investigation on suspect large-scale property damage and potentially criminal acts of the company’s former heads, a Ministry of Transport and Communications press release states according to lrt.lt. […]
Over 1,000 Poles may have been given fake employment contracts in Lithuania to have their healthcare costs reimbursed by the Lithuanian Compulsory Health Insurance Fund, the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) said on Tuesday. […]
Unpleasant steps are being taken regarding Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) by the Seimas, LRT Director General Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė says. According to her, there have been various attempts to limit the freedom of press during […]
Lithuania’s Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) has identified a Ukrainian citizen illegally working at a supermarket in Vilnius. […]
4 million euros, officially recognized as having no owner, have been transferred to the state budget in Lithuania following six probes by the country’s Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT), the 15min.lt news website reports on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) has busted a group of Lithuanian and Latvian nationals who imported 50 tons of refined rapeseed and sunflower oil and sugar into Lithuania from Poland per week without paying the value-added tax (VAT). […]
Ernestas Butrimas, the son of Kristina Brazauskienė, the widow of Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas, is suspected of false accounting and the provision of false income, profit and asset information related to real estate operation in the United States. […]
Lithuania’s Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) and Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office have handed over to court a criminal case in which a Lithuanian company is suspected of sham managements of metal and other packaging, causing the State of Lithuania damage worth 6 million euros. […]
Minister of Transport and Communications Rokas Masiulis says that the recently surfacing corruption in the sector he curates are a natural matter. “There are areas that were touched and those that weren’t. The transport and […]
Political scandals have been reducing President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s ratings for three months in a row now. Political scientists state that this was caused by both the corruption scandal, which drew the president in, as well […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
Lietuvos Geležinkeliai‘s (Lithuanian Railways) planned contract, worth over 3 million euros, with Skinest Baltija, a company of Estonia’s railway services and investment group Skinest Rail, on the purchase of railway sleepers is not in line with national security interests, the Transport Ministry said, based on an opinion from a special commission. […]
The Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) investigation on politicians and business links has reached its conclusion, but doubts are being voiced, whether the material presented by law enforcement to the investigators will help […]
1. Democracies, both new and old, have been facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. Growing populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the one hand, and the abundance of oligarchical symptoms in young democracies, on the […]
Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis claims he has heard that the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee investigation over business and politicians’ links could also feature a former member of his […]
Already after the Liberal Movement (LS) chairman elections it was only left to wonder, what could be expected next. The election of old-new chairman Eugenijus Gentvilas raised many doubts over the party’s ability to perform […]
It is evident to every Lithuanian citizen that the publication of the State Security Department (VSD) report is linked to Eligijus Masiulis and Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s correspondence story, former VSD director Mečys Laurinkus told lrt.lt. The […]
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