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Lithuania's Interior Ministry has turned to the Prosecutor General's Office over the ministry's two public procurement contracts related to IT services.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday appointed Police Commissioner General Saulius Skvernelis as interior minister.

Leader of the Order and Justice party Rolandas Paksas has proposed Police Commissioner General Saulius Skvernelis as minister of the interior.

Former Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas was on Friday questioned as a special witness in an ongoing investigation into alleged public procurement-related corruption involving ministry staff.

Finding a new interior minister will take a few days, Rolandas Paksas, leader of Lithuania's Order and Justice party, says, adding that a candidate could be nominated as early as next week.

The Lithuania Tribune / DELFI.LT TV spoke to Andrius Kubilius, former prime minister and leader of the Opposition in the Seimas. We asked his opinion about the resignation of Minister of the Interior Dailius Barakausas.

Lithuania's Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas submitted his letter of resignation on Thursday. The minister says he's stepping down due to deteriorating health.

The Seimas political groups of the Homeland Union and the Liberal Movement have initiated an interpellation to Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas and started collecting MPs' signatures.

The Order and Justice party might leave the ruling coalition amid an ongoing corruption scandal at the Ministry of the Interior, and one could not discount the possibility that Lithuania might have a minority government, says Gediminas Kirkilas, vice-chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Lithua...

If law enforcement agencies find that members of the Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas' team breached laws, the minister will have to assume moral responsibility and resign, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has denied speculations that if Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas resigns, his party, the Order and Justice, will leave the ruling coalition.

The prosecutor in the so-called Ministry of the Interior case in Lithuania has decided not to demand the arrest of the suspects who subsequently received softer measures of suppression.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has refused to comment on the suitability of Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas to continue as interior minister. Meanwhile Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has asked the minister to stay on until investigation into corruption at the ministry is concluded.

The parliamentary group of the conservative Homeland Union will initiate interpellation against Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas, unless he resigns himself. This was confirmed by opposition leader Andrius Kubilius.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas of the Order and Justice party says he has no intentions of resigning amid the corruption suspicions against former members of his political team.

Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she would resign, if she were in the place of Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas, whose former associates were detained amidst corruption investigation on Tuesday.

Agents from Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT) on Tuesday searched the headquarters of the country's ruling Order and Justice party and arrested five individuals, including former adviser and deputy to the minister of the interior.

Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas has set up a working group that will draft documents for the establishment of a pan-Baltic expert coordination committee.

Ministers of interior affairs of the three Baltic states have agreed to set up a joint committee to coordinate issues of home security and public peace.

Lithuania is recalling the enhanced border protection, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.