The impeachment commission for Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the parliament's Social Democratic Party group, will ask for extension its work until June 1.
Mindaugas Bastys EN
102 straipsnių
The decision taken by Lithuanian prosecutors not to open a probe against him shows the political retribution attempts in the parliament, says MP Mindaugas Bastys.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office told BNS on Wednesday it had refused opening a pre-trial investigation into MP Mindaugas Bastys' assistance to a foreign country to act against Lithuania.
The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, the largest party in the country's parliament, will unanimously vote to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of the Social Democrats of his MP mandate, says LFGU leader and group elder Ramūnas Karbauskis.
After the Lithuanian parliament decided that Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys acted against Lithuania's interests, he should give up the mandate to avoid further damage to himself and the party, says the Social Democratic Party's new leader Gintautas Paluckas.
A special commission set up by the Lithuanian parliament for MP Mindaugas Bastys' impeachment will invite Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department, and another intelligence officer to testify during its meeting next week.
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, says that he will ask the State Security Department, or VSD, for some guidelines what to look at while investigating politicians' potentially dangerous ties with Russia.
Persons who maintained close contacts with Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys aimed to change the country's geopolitical course, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, said in his presentation of the conclusions of the probe.
Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, acted against the interests of the Lithuanian state by maintaining close and constant contacts with representatives of Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, according to conclusions by a parliamentary com...
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the junior partner in the ruling coalition, will not support a parliamentary committee's conclusion that Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the LSDP political group in the Seimas, acted against the interests of the Lithuanian state by maintaining close and c...
Russia's nuclear energy giant Rosatom, which is building the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, had plans to gain a foothold in Lithuania, according to declassified material provided by the State Security Department to the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence.
Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, acted against the interests of the Lithuanian state by maintaining close and constant contacts with representatives of Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, a parliamentary committee has concluded after a...
Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, says that he does not intend to step down as a lawmaker even if a parliamentary probe finds that his actions pose a threat to national security.
The Lithuanian parliament's National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday plans to vote on draft conclusions of the probe of the ties of MP Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the group of the ruling Social Democratic Party.
The Lithuanian parliament's National Security and Defence Committee is working to establish new details of MP Mindaugas Bastys ties and political influences in the framework of the probe into his connections. On Monday, Bastys was asked about his acquaintance with representatives and CEO Vidmantas K...