In cooperation with the UK law-enforcement, the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT) is conducting a large-scale corruption and bribery investigation involving, among other things, a 200-million-euro project carried out by France’s engineering group Alstom at the Lithuanian Power Plant in Elektrėnai, STT spokeswoman Renata Saulytė has confirmed. […]
Three young women on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office, claiming that they had been sexually harassed by Kęstutis Pūkas, a member of the Seimas. […]
The Seimas Commission for Ethics and Procedures has decided to propose that the Lithuanian parliament initiate impeachment proceedings against MP Kęstutis Pūkas of the Order and Justice party amid suspicions that he might have breached the oath and violated the Constitution. […]
The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Social Democratic Party are initiating impeachment against Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys. After Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis learned about the initiative on Tuesday, an impeachment procedure was launched. […]
Lithuania’s parliamentarians on Tuesday opened legal amendments proposed by President Dalia Grybauskaitė to enable the country’s law-enforcement to put financial offenders who have fled the country on trial. […]
Lithuanian Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson says that there is no legal basis to fire Gintautas Kevišas, the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), who has defied calls to resign. […]
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. […]
Lithuanian Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis on Tuesday will formally ask the Seimas to strip two parliamentarians — Petras Gražulis of the Order and Justice party and Mantas Adomėnas of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) — of their legal immunity. […]
The popularity of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) declined by 4.6 percentage points to 21.9 percent of respondents in January month-on-month, while the positive attitude towards the government dropped by 7.2 percent, shows a survey published on delfi.lt news portal. […]
Lithuanian laws allow making public information about people seeking access to classified documents, the director of the State Security Department (VSD) said on Friday. […]
Viktoras Aidukas, judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania who has been questioned in an investigation, has stepped down. […]
The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) are initiating impeachment of Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys who has not received access to classified information due to his links with the criminal world and representatives of Russian energy companies. […]
Lithuania’s parliament, which is opening its spring session on Friday, should rally the “courage to cleanse the remains of nomenclature-style governance,” President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her congratulatory message. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys did not get a permit to work with classified information due to his personal links with representatives of Russian energy companies and the criminal community, a former KGB agent and a pro-Kremlin journalist, shows a report from the State Security Department. […]
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. […]
After being urged by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis to step down from the post of Seimas vice-speaker, Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys said he had been acquainted with the materials provided by the State Security Department, pledging to decide after a consultation with the political group. […]
Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Lithuanian chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK), presented his resignation from the post to Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Thursday, March 9, the parliament’s Public Relations Division said. […]
Lithuania’s new parliament, which was sworn in last November, is commencing in its spring session on Friday. BNS Lithuania is providing an overview of the most important bills included into the agenda. […]
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