Romas Valentukevičius
Politics

Seimas speaker to sack official ethics chief

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis of the ruling Peasant and Green Union has pledged to initiate sacking Romas Valentukevičius from the post of the head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission. […]

In the Seimas
Politics

Seimas to draft separate law to set out MPs’ duties, rights, guarantees

The Seimas will work out a separate law to set out the duties, rights and guarantees of the activities of members of the Lithuanian parliament. […]

Dainoras Bradauskas
Politics

Lithuania’s tax chief sacked

Lithuanian Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka has sacked Dainoras Bradauskas, head of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI), after a commission set up by the ministry recommended firing him for corrupt activities and gross official misconduct. […]

Mantas Adomėnas
Politics

Prosecutors asks Seimas to strip 2 MPs of legal immunity

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has asked the Seimas to lift the legal immunity of two lawmakers — Mantas Adomėnas of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and Naglis Puteikis, a member of the Peasant and Green Union’s political group in the parliament — in separate defamation cases. […]