Corruption

The Seimas Anti-Corruption Commission, which has been granted an ad hoc investigative powers, will into corruption allegations surrounding social democratic politicians in Druskininkai and also the activities of influential Conservatives and their families.

The Special Investigation Service (STT) Panevėžys Department detained a person on suspicions of acting in a group of accomplices and misappropriating high-value property of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is being decommissioned. The court gave authorisation to arrest the person for ten da...

Professor Aistė Diržytė, head of the Psychological Well-Being Research Laboratory, was somewhat surprised by her own research results on corruption.

Lithuanian prosecutors on Tuesday decided to bring suspicions to the Lithuanian Basketball Federation for abuse of powers, fraud and document forgery during EuroBasket 2011.

Vilnius Regional Court on Friday found former Vice Mayor of Vilnius Romas Adomavičius, of the Social Democratic Party, guilty in a corruption case.

While Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was pompously comparing the “victory” of the Crimea annexation to the fall of Berlin Wall and people of the occupied Luhansk region were being told to work for a loaf of bread, Ukraine started off on the tough road of reform that will determine the future...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia's aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age...

Managers of Lithuanian companies are optimistic about anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) measures applied by companies. However, almost half of them say that corruption is widespread.

Officers of the Special Investigation Service (STT) carried out a search and seizure at Lithuania's Ministry of Environment on Wednesday. They took computers from the Public Information Project Management Division.

Lithuanian prosecutors want outgoing Vilnius Vice-Mayor Romas Adomavičius of the Social Democratic Party found guilty of mediation in bribery and imprisoned for five years.

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

Deputy Director of the Special Investigation Service (STT) Romas Zienka says that in 2025 Lithuania should come within the top 10 of the most transparent member states of the European Union.

Lithuanian readers have been recently presented with a book by American journalist Gregory Feifer, Russians: The People behind the Power. In it, Feifer reflects on modern Russia and the people that continue to puzzle outsiders.

Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations repo...

Eleven representatives of a pharmaceutical company have been detained in Lithuania's major cities of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys under suspicions of bribery, the country's Special Investigation Service said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's Justice Ministry has proposed that the government should consider amendments to several laws that would ensure confidentiality for persons reporting corruption in the law-enforcement system and public service.

In a report published on 11 February, the Council of Europe Anti-Corruption Group (GRECO) acknowledges the comprehensive legal and institutional framework developed by Lithuania to prevent and fight corruption among members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. It also stresses that the authorities...

Amendments to the Law on Public Service have been submitted to the Seimas (parliament) on the initiative of President Dalia Grybauskaitė. The amendments seek to prevent public servants from signing additional work contracts with their own employers, to prevent them from cashing-in on public service ...

A retrospective look at the conflicts dominating the headlines in 2014 presents a grim picture of escalating conflict and human suffering. Underneath the headlines is a common thread connecting the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Ukrainian protesters in the Maidan, and the Ni...

Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that parliament will not consider amendments to the Criminal Code during the parliament's current session. The Order and Justice party has proposed reducing liability for trading in influence.