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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.

The Seimas of Lithuania's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) won't probe the circumstances mentioned in email exchanges between President Dalia Grybauskaitė and former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis, charged with corruption, CNSD chairman Vytautas Bakas says.

The Seimas of Lithuania's Committee on National Security and Defense, currently carrying out a probe into interest groups' influence on politicians, is also interested in journalist Tomas Dapkus working for a TV channel owned by MG Baltic, the Lietuvos Rytas daily writes.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė wanted to sack Diana Korsakaitė, the former chairwoman of the country's National Commission for Energy Control and Prices, for her links to Icor business group, according to extracts of the president's emails, published on Thursday.

The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) will look at whether recently published emails between President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a political corruption case, are authentic, with the answers expected to come from the Seimas server...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that he sees no grounds, at least for now, for opening a parliamentary investigation into President Dalia Grybauskaitė's email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a political corruption case.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that President Dalia Grybauskaitė's email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader accused of corruption, should be looked at from a moral rather than a legal point of view.

The chairwoman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs (CLA) says that President Dalia Grybauskaitė's comments on her email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis leave many unanswered questions about the contents of these letters.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė does not deny having had email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a political corruption case, but says that she cannot confirm the authenticity of letters published in the media.

Lithuanian prosecutors on Monday declined to comment on claims by Eligijus Masiulis regarding his email exchange with President Dalia Grybauskaitė, saying that politicians' lawful behavior was not part of their pre-trial investigation into a political corruption case involving the former leader of t...

Eligijus Masiulis, former leader of Lithuania's liberals, currently a suspect in a political corruption case, claims to have exchanged emails with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė for at least two years, the Lietuvos Rytas daily writes.

Another judge of the Vilnius Regional Court has disqualified himself from hearing a major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's largest business groups, and two political parties.

Eligijus Masiulis, former leader of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, has rejected the allegations in the political corruption probe, saying that prosecutors failed to include evidence that could prove his innocence into the case.

Raimondas Kurlianskis, former vice-president of the Lithuanian MG Baltic concern, is charged with paying bribes to politicians for influence to adoption of laws, determining winners of public procurement tenders and appointment of officials, law-enforcement said on Tuesday.

A major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's largest business groups, and two political parties, the Liberal Movement and the Labor Party, goes to court this week.