A loan or repayment of loans is the most frequent defence in corruption crimes, says Saulius Urbanavičius, the head of Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service conducting probes of political corruption. […]
Prosecutors have announced that they are discontinuing an investigation into alleged tax evasion by shareholders of VP Group, one of the biggest companies in Lithuania that owns several shopping malls and the Maxima supermarket chain. […]
Prosecutors have brought formal suspicions of influence peddling and large-scale bribery against Vytautas Gapšys, the Lithuanian Labour Party‘s deputy chairman who has recently resigned as a member of the Seimas. […]
Petras Gražulis, a member of the Lithuanian parliament whose office has recently been searched in an influence peddling investigation, was summoned for questioning at the Prosecutor General’s Office as a special witness on Tuesday.
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Suspicions of power abuse brought by the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT) against the country’s chief veterinary officer Jonas Milius came unexpected to many parliamentarians. Some politicians say the shadow cast by the investigation will burden the operations of the State Food and Veterinary Service (SFVS), calling for Milius’ resignation.
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Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service on Thursday brought suspicions of abuse of powers against the country’s chief veterinary officer Jonas Milius.
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Lithuania’s Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis has asked the Seimas (parliament) to strip Vytautas Gapšys, a Labour Party MP, of immunity.
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Lithuanian Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys dismissed government investigators’ suspicions that he had taken a €25,000 bribe from MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis.
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Judging by the reactions of parties’ chairmen and their members to the cronyism and corruption scandals rocking Lithuania’s political parties, the leaders of Lithuania’s “classical” political parties – the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats and the Liberal Movement – are rife with Trumpism, argues political observer Arkadijus Vinokuras. […]
The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT) said on Thursday that it is investigating suspicions that a business group has offered a €100,000 bribe to Eligijus Masiulis, the leader of the Liberal Movement. […]
The fight against corruption and the overhaul of state-owned companies are the key challenges that Lithuania will face on its path to membership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has appealed a ruling in the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping case to the Supreme Court and asked it to send the case back to the Court of Appeals Court re-examination. […]
A survey has shown that more than half of Lithuanian residents believe that the country’s business environment lacks transparency. […]
Medical students, government and NGO representatives are to work out a corruption prevention plan for health services in Lithuania. The Lithuanian Medical Students Association is organizing a discussion on the issue on Monday. Sergejus Muravjovas […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius believes that the goals of Ukraine‘s new Prime Minister, Volodymyr Groysman, are correct and should be given the opportunity to become reality. […]
Though the level of democracy in Lithuania is higher than in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, it still lags behind its Baltic state neighbours of Estonia and Latvia, according to U.S.-based nongovernmental organisation Freedom House. […]
Former interior minister Gintaras Jonas Furmanavičius has been dismissed from the post of adviser to director of the Lithuanian National Land Service at his own request amid corruption suspicions, the institution has said. […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is among national leaders with offshore wealth, a report by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) as part of huge tax leak dubbed “Panama Papers” revealed Monday. […]
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