Romas Valentukevičius
Politics

Seimas accepts official ethics chief’s resignation

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Romas Valentukevičius as head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) with 99 votes in favour, none against and none abstaining. […]

Judges
Politics

Supreme Court judge resigns after questioning in corruption trial

Viktoras Aidukas, judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania who has been questioned in an investigation, has stepped down. […]

Viktoras Pranckietis
Politics

Seimas speaker mentions impeachment for Bastys, PM sees no grounds

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has said that the parliament might open an impeachment procedure against Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys, if he does not decide to step down from the Seimas leadership and the parliament itself after the State Security Department refused to give him access to classified information due to his personal links with criminal figures and representatives of Russian energy companies. […]

Mindaugas Bastys
Politics

Bastys resigning from parlt vice-speaker but keeps mandate

Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys has told BNS he was stepping down from the post of parliamentary vice-speaker amid the suspicions of shady relations with criminal figures and representatives of Russian energy companies, however, plans to keep his MP mandate. […]

Romas Valentukevičius
Politics

Ethics chief pledges to resign tomorrow

Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Lithuanian chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK), says he would resign from the post on Friday, March 10. […]