President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to have a “serious conversation” with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius about corruption suspicions that have plagued his cabinet over the last week. The meeting is scheduled for next week, after Butkevičius comes back from vacation. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is not planning to cut short his vacation in the Caribbean despite several of his cabinet ministers becoming embroiled in controversy. […]
The Special Investigation Service (STT) intends to interview Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas as part of an investigation into construction in the territory of Druskininkai Vijūnėlė Manor, southern Lithuania. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has been urged to step down for a “variety of reasons” that are not only to do with corruption in the healthcare system, says advisor to the Lithuanian president Mindaugas Lingė. […]
Last month, the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats set up new party chapters in Switzerland and the City of London. The conservatives are planning to continue with divisions in the United States and Poland, according to the daily Lietuvos Žinios. […]
It still pays to defraud, steal and avoid taxes in Lithuania, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday, commenting on the Court of Appeals verdict in the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping case. […]
Viktor Uspaskich, a member of the European Parliament and founder of Lithuania’s Labour Party, has been cleared of tax avoidance charges by the Lithuanian Court of Appeals which overturned a previous prison sentence imposed on the politician. He will still have to pay a fine of €6,800 for hiding income and expenses in his party’s accounts. […]
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals is to hand down a ruling in the Labour Party‘s bookkeeping fraud case on Monday, paving way for the verdict in the case to take effect. […]
Former Vilnius mayor Artūras Zuokas, leader of the Lithuanian Freedom Union, says his party is planning to approach the Liberal Movement about joining forces in the general elections this October. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, who said last Friday she was stepping down over suspected corruption, will submit her letter of resignation after the prime minister comes back from holidays next week. […]
Both the Lithuanian president and the prime minister said on Friday that Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Social Democrats should step down amid corruption suspicions. The minister said she would hand in a letter of resignation and wait for the prime minister’s decision. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Healthcare Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė is being investigated for allegedly demanding bribes from hospitals in exchange for EU support, 15min.lt reports. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has admitted she once gave a bribe to doctors. She made the comments while discussing small-scale corruption that is wide-spread in the country’s healthcare system. […]
Lithuania’s ethics watchdog has decided not to investigate Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė who caused controversy by taking her husband on an official trip to London. […]
Existing Lithuanian laws allow for political manipulation using classified criminal intelligence reports, an investigation by the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs has revealed. […]
A State prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal of presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė on charges of leaking a state secret, stressing at the Supreme Court on Wednesday that President Dalia Grybauskaitė should also be interviewed in the case. […]
Lithuania’s Ethics Commission will decide whether to open an investigation into the controversy surrounding the Minister for Education and Science, Audronė Pitrėnienė, bringing her husband with her on an official trip to London. […]
Lithuania is seen as less corrupt than before as the country moves up seven spots in Transparency International‘s corruption perception index. […]
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