Lithuania’s Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis has asked the Seimas (parliament) to strip Vytautas Gapšys, a Labour Party MP, of immunity. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
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Though Lithuania's political world is still reeling from recent corruption scandals, the Prosecutor General has promised to announce new interrogations and accusations for still more politicians and Seimas members.
The Bank of Lithuania has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to investigate alleged slander by a media group.
MEP Rolandas Paksas has denied allegations of accepting a bribe, saying that prosecutors' announcement on Tuesday that they would seek his legal immunity stripped was just a continuation of a campaign against him that started in 2004.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius will suggest that Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas, a fellow social democrat, suspend his membership in the party while investigators probe his suspected involvement in a shady construction project. However, Butkevičius does not believe that Malinauskas sho...
Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė has accepted resignation of her deputy Vilius Martusevičius over alleged corruption in the ministry's food for poor programme.
Mayor of Druskininkai Ričardas Malinauskas has admitted giving money to contractors who were working on a property that has been the subject of an anti-corruption investigation. He still denies that he is the owner of the property, insisting he was only mediating.
The Prosecutor General's Office is to investigate public procurement contracts for the government's food for poor programme after it emerged that companies picked to supply products offered massively inflated prices.
Mayor of Druskininkai Ričardas Malinauskas has been questioned by investigators who are probing allegedly questionable motives behind a government decree legalizing construction in the southern Lithuanian resort town.
The US Justice Department has announced it has accepted Lithuania’s request for extradition of former MP and former judge Neringa Venckienė, said Lithuanian Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis.
It still pays to defraud, steal and avoid taxes in Lithuania, the country's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday, commenting on the Court of Appeals verdict in the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping case.
Prosecutor Žydrūnas Radišauskas is to be appointed as deputy prosecutor general of Lithuania, the President's Office said on Monday.
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals is to hand down a ruling in the Labour Party's bookkeeping fraud case on Monday, paving way for the verdict in the case to take effect.
Soviet Union's Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov has been named in the so-called January 13 case in Lithuania. He is accused of establishing in late 1990 an organized group of 160 army officers and political figures, aimed at re-incorporating Lithuania into the USSR, according to the indictment drafted ...
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) are conducting a probe into alleged illegal activities by Vilniaus Prekyba, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, and its shareholders, including Lithuania’s richest businessman, Nerijus Numavičius. Nu...
Lithuania's Minister of Healthcare Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė is being investigated for allegedly demanding bribes from hospitals in exchange for EU support, 15min.lt reports.
Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens charged in the January 13, 1991, coup in Lithuania case may stand trial in absentia, a Vilnius court ruled on Friday.
Officers of the Special Investigation Service in Vilnius have questioned the director of the National Land Service Daiva Gineikaitė again after receiving findings from the State Forensic Medicine Service that supported suspicions that there was an attempt to conceal the fact that the director caused...
In the first press conference organized by the new Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis since he was sworn in two days ago, he promised changes in the Prosecutor's Office.
On Tuesday, the General Prosecutor's Office reported that Darius Raulušaitis, who had been serving as a temporary Prosecutor General, withdrew from the Prosecutor General's Office. D. Raulušaitis had held the position since June, when former Prosecutor General Darius Valys' term ended.