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The Lithuanian State Security Department, or VSD, respects Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' wish that intelligence information about interest groups' unlawful influence on the political system be declassified, but it has to assess any potential harm to the agency's ongoing investigation, a spokesw...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that he sees no sense in opening a probe regarding President Dalia Grybauskaitė's email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a major political corruption case.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis will seek that the entire material of a parliamentary investigation into interest group's unlawful influence on the country's political system should be made public.

Inga Larionovaitė will be in charge of the news service and news integration at Lithuania's public broadcaster LRT. On Tuesday, she announced her decision to step down as head of the news service at Info TV.

The publication of intelligence information on the MG Baltic business group's influence on political processes in Lithuania is aimed at making direct influence on judges about to hear a political corruption case involving MG Baltic, the group said on Tuesday.

Eugenijus Gentvilas, leader of Lithuania's Liberal Movement, categorically rejects claims made the State Security Department's (VSD) report that the Liberal Movement was a long-term project of the MG Baltic business group.

The replacement of certain heads of law enforcement and intelligence institutions before 2016 led to a more drastic and effective fight against corrupt interest groups' influence on political processes, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.

MG Baltic President Darius Mockus says that the business group has become the target of people who want to rule the state by using "extinct regimes' methods".

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 chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) confirmed on Monday that the panel, which is conducting a probe into interest groups' unlawful influence on politicians, has received a part of declassified information from security services.

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 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 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.

Claims that Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė in 2015 discussed candidates for the job of prosecutor general with MG Baltic, one of the country's biggest business groups, are untrue and mislead the public, a presidential advisor said on Monday.