According to the controversial MP, several weeks ago he was contacted by a person claiming to be DOGE employee Ryan Riedel, who invited him to meet with billionaire Elon Musk, the head of DOGE. Žemaitaitis intended to obtain information about the activities of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Lithuania.
"After several weeks of communication and information exchange, we were invited to visit the USA and meet with their team. (…) However, after arriving at the airport today it turned out that this was a scam by our Lithuanian figures. Plane tickets were fake! I must return to work, whereas our main master of Lithuanian intrigues succeeded in trickery," Žemaitaitis wrote on social platform Facebook.
In February, the MP himself addressed Elon Musk proposing to cooperate with DOGE in finding out whether USAID influenced political processes in Lithuania. Žemaitaitis asked for information about USAID grants and subsidies to Lithuanian non-governmental organisations, media and journalists.
On Tuesday, he posted an exchange of emails with the alleged DOGE representative who purportedly used his personal email for correspondence. He also shared a photo of fake first-class plane tickets.