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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.
Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas and President Grybauskaitė
Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas and President Grybauskaitė
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Barakauskas, of the Order and Justice party, came under fire after two former members of his team were detained amidst suspicions of high-scale corruption in public procurement procedures at the Ministry of Interior.

"Until the investigation is finished, the president will not comment on the suitability of Interior Minister Barakauskas to

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