The Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) turned on Wednesday to the Prosecutor General's Office over allegedly unlawful disclosure of intelligence information.
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The State Security Department's information on a former prosecutor's close cooperation with the MG Baltic business group's executives is undermining trust in the prosecution service, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis says.
Journalist Tomas Dapkus, as a middleman for the top executives of MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's biggest business groups, was allegedly involved in activities bearing the signs of blackmail, the State Security Department (VSD) said in a document.
Verners Lūsis has resigned as CEO of LDZ Logistics, a subsidiary of Latvijas Dzelzcels (Latvian Railways), after he was detained in Lithuania last week at Poland's request.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday decided to open an investigation into media reports about the business owned by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, and his family members.
Lithuania's government does not rule out cooperation with the International Criminal Court on the US Central Intelligence Agency's alleged prison near Vilnius, however, sticks to its version that Antaviliai accommodated an intelligence support center rather than a secret interrogation center.
An amount of explosive material is missing from the Lithuanian Armed Forces' Juozas Vitkus Engineering Battalion, but law-enforcement officials do not rule out that the shortfall, which was discovered last week, might be due to an accounting error.
