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In the last 2 years, number of MPs declaring their meetings with interest groups or lobbyists doubles

March 6, 2019 EN.DELFI 0

In the last 2 years, the number of Lithuanian MPs who declare with which interest groups or lobbyists they meet has doubled. Last year, parliamentarians also announced 1,5 times more meetings than in 2017. These figures are reported in research conducted by Transparency International Lithuania, which includes information from manosusitikimai.lt, official work calendars, and personal websites of the parliamentarians. […]

LRT Investigation. R. Karbauskis’ secretive business in Belarus. What did the politician seek to hide?

December 20, 2018 Media Briefing 0

The LRT Investigation Department has uncovered another Russian partner to Agrokoncernas. Fertiliser is also imported from the fertiliser factory Kuibyshev Azot, which is managed and whose shareholder is a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia, Viktor Gerasimenko. The head of the fertiliser factory supported V. Putin during the presidential elections and several years ago successfully ran in regional elections together with United Russia. The only shareholder of Agrokoncernas, “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis sees no issue with such business partnerships, lrt.lt writes. […]

Lithuania posts modest results in combatting foreign bribery, but is on right track

September 12, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania has, so far, achieved modest results in combating bribery in international business transactions, but the country has taken significant steps to improve these efforts, Transparency International said in a report published on Wednesday. […]

More than half of Lithuanian MPs publish info on their meetings – Transparency International

September 5, 2018 BNS 0

Seventy-five members of the 141-seat Seimas made public information about their meetings with interest groups and registered lobbyists during the Lithuanian parliament’s past spring session, up from 45 who did so a year earlier, Transparency International Lithuania said on Wednesday. […]

Transparency International organizes traditional transparency school in Vilnius

July 2, 2018 BNS 0

Nongovernmental organization Transparency International is opening its traditional transparency school in Vilnius on Monday. […]

Businesses in Vilnius, Kaunas want more transparency in public procurement – survey

May 10, 2018 BNS 0

Thirty-one percent of businesses in Vilnius and 19 percent in Kaunas did not participate in a public procurement procedure because they though that the public tender was tailored for a particular company, a survey by Transparency International Lithuanian Chapter (TI Lithuania) has shown. […]

In search of transparency: blind date between business and the parties

April 13, 2018 Kazys Kazakevicius 0

There are calls in the Seimas to once more establish the right for legal entities to back political powers, but not directly, instead through a blind party support fund so the companies would not know […]

Jovitas Raškevičius, of the Special Investigation Service STT Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune (2)

Is Lithuania doing enough to fight corruption?

February 23, 2018 Justinas Suliokas and Ludo Segers 0

Corruption has been habitually singled out as one of the major afflictions slowing down Lithuania’s development, a problem put down to the country’s Soviet legacy as well as frailty of its young institutions. Jovitas Raškevičius, of the Special Investigation Service (STT), notes that the effort Lithuania has put into fighting corruption is bearing fruit, while Liudas Jurkonis, of EY’s fraud investigation and dispute services, highlights that business companies need to invest more into their own internal control systems. […]

Lithuanian bodies underuse anti-corruption instruments – Grybauskaitė

February 22, 2018 BNS 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Lithuania’s failure to improve its position in Transparency International‘s latest Corruption Perception Index shows that the country’s bodies do not make sufficient use of the instruments they have to curb corruption. […]

Lithuania fails to improve its corruption perception ranking

February 22, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania failed to improve its position in the latest Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International on Wednesday. […]

Lithuanian residents face less corruption – Eurobarometer

December 12, 2017 BNS 0

Although residents of Lithuania still think that many areas in the country are badly affected by corruption, the past few years marked a significant decline in the number of cases they faced corruption, shows the latest Eurobarometer survey. […]

Transparency International’s Russian rep sees Magnitsky Act as merely symbolic

December 5, 2017 BNS 0

The Magnitsky Act adopted in Lithuania on the black list of Russian officials is merely a symbolic gesture with no benefits for efforts against corruption, says a representative of the Russian division of the counter-corruption non-governmental organization Transparency International. […]

Seimas adopts corruption whistleblower protection law

November 29, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a law ensuring confidentiality of persons reporting corruption and other offenses of officers and public servants. The law should take effect in January of 2019. […]

Lithuania’s largest companies become more transparent – study

October 31, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s largest companies have improved their average transparency score over the past three years, with the ranking topped by the telecoms services providers Tele2 (100 points) and Telia Lietuva (98 points) and the grocery chain Maxima LT (96 points), according to a study by Transparency International (TI) Lithuania. […]

One in 3 Lithuanian MPS publish info on their meetings – Transparency International

September 6, 2017 BNS EN 0

One out of three members of the Seimas made public information about their meetings with organizations and registered lobbyists during the Lithuanian parliament’s past spring session, Transparency International Lithuania said on Wednesday after analyzing parliamentarians’ official calendars and personal websites. […]

Transparency International urges President to veto lobbyism law

June 21, 2017 BNS EN 0

Transparency International Lithuania on Tuesday urged President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the law on lobbyist activities adopted by the country’s parliament earlier in the day. […]

Lithuanian media avoid criticizing bodies they get publicity funds from

May 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Media organizations often avoid reporting negatively about authorities and institutions from which they receive publicity funds or report positively about them, a study by the Lithuanian office of Transparency International has revealed. […]

Corruption Index sends message to Govt to avoid SocDem mistakes

January 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s decline on the annual Corruption Perception Index sends a message to the new government to avoid mistakes made by the earlier Cabinet of the Social Democratic Party and start specific tasks, says Sergejus Muravjovas, the head of the Lithuanian office of Transparency International. […]

Lithuania drops 6 places on Corruption Perception Index

January 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania dropped six places on the Corruption Perception Index last year, Transparency International non-governmental organization said on Wednesday. […]

Kaunas' pupils protest against corruption

Corruption barometer: 1 in 4 Lithuanians paid bribe in past year

November 16, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuania remains among the most corrupt European countries – although Lithuanian residents paid fewer bribes to doctors and police officers in the past year, one in four residents have paid a bribe in the past 12 months, shows the Global Corruption Barometer published by Transparency International. […]