Bartkus to take office as director of Lithuania’s anti-corruption agency

March 30, 2018 BNS Politics 0
Saulius Urbanavičius, Žydrūnas Bartkus
DELFI / Kiril Čachovskij

Bartkus will be sworn in by President Dalia Grybauskaitė after the parliament on Tuesday approved his appointment as the next head of the anti-corruption agency.

He replaces Saulius Urbanavičius, whose five-year term in office ended on Thursday.

Bartkus has been working at STT since 1999. He has held the post of first deputy director at the anti-corruption agency since April 2013.

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