The Special Investigation Service
Politics

Lithuania in “medium-sized” political crisis but coalition likely to remain

Lithuania is currently undergoing a “medium-sized” political crisis, according to Lithuanian political scientists and analysts, but one that should not threaten the current Government’s and ruling coalition’s composition. […]

Order and Justice MP Petras Gražulis
Politics

Order and Justice party members target Lithuanian prosecutor’s home with protest

Members of the Order and Justice party, part of the ruling coalition party in Lithuania and whose Rolandas Paksas leader has been accused of corruption, held a protest outside the house of Lithuanian state prosecutor, Irmantas Mikelionis, in Vilnius District yesterday. […]

Audrius Jurgelevičius, leader of the teachers' trade union
Politics

Teachers’ strike to end Friday, say union leaders

The teachers’ trade unions involved in the nearly two-week-long strike for higher wages in Lithuania have announced that they are prepared to call off their strike as early as Friday. Audrius Jurgelevičius, the leader of the Lithuanian Education Trade Union, told LRT that he believes that the trade unions have achieved 75 percent of their goals after the government managed to find an additional €8 million to increase educational staff’s wages. […]

Rolandas Paksas
Politics

‘Let them turn to the Devil himself for all I care’ – MEP Paksas denies allegations of bribe taking

MEP Rolandas Paksas has denied allegations of accepting a bribe, saying that prosecutors’ announcement on Tuesday that they would seek his legal immunity stripped was just a continuation of a campaign against him that started in 2004. […]

Gedgaudas Vainauskas, Rolandas Paksas
Politics

MEP Paksas offered bribe by owner of Lithuania’s biggest newspaper, say investigators

MEP Rolandas Paksas, leader of the Order and Justice party, was questioned in an influence peddling investigation on Monday. The Special Investigations Service (STT) said the politician was allegedly offered a bribe by Gedgaudas Vainauskas, shareholder of the Lietuvos Rytas daily. […]