Special Investigations Service

The Lithuanian parliament's acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster's operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking the government to earmark money and call a tender for LRT's external audit.

Lithuania's law-enforcement conducting a probe into corruption by MG Baltic concern and a few political parties say that the expanded suspicions against the Liberal Movement are final. The party's acting leader Eugenijus Gentvilas says the broader suspicions have to do with the upcoming election for...

Dalius Misiūnas is stepping down from the top position at the state-run energy holding Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy) after more than six years in office, the Finance Ministry said.

The Lithuanian Special Investigations Service (STT) says it has been receiving growing numbers of reports about corruption, which result in about half of all STT probes.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is holding a board meeting for what he said was influence of business groups on the country's political system.

Backstage operations of Gintautas Kevišas, the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), have turned into a "shadow play" and fall short of the requirement of transparent management and responsibility of an institution's chief, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Some 16 percent of the Lithuanian population have admitted paying a bribe over the past year, shows a survey published by the Special Investigations Service on Wednesday. In 2014, the number was 24 percent.