The Lithuanian president signed a decree on Tuesday, appointing Evaldas Pašilis as the country's prosecutor general.
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Evaldas Pašilis, a judge from Ukmergė, has been appointed prosecutor general six months after his predecessor left the office. He says that one of the keys to making the system do a better job is providing more security to people working in it.
The Lithuanian parliament voted on Tuesday to endorse the president's nomination of judge Evaldas Pašilis to the post of prosecutor general.
The Lithuanian parliament is voting on Tuesday on the new candidate for the post of prosecutor general which has been vacant since June.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė nominated judge Evaldas Pašilis for the post of prosecutor general.
The Lithuanian Government decided on Wednesday that representatives of associated business organisations may from now on become members of the Inter-agency Commission for Coordination of Fight against Corruption.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accused the parliament of being influenced by interest groups when it voted down two candidates proposed for the post of prosecutor general. Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says there will not be another vote until all suspicions are cleared.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė expects to appoint a new prosecutor general by the end of this year, the president's spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė said after a meeting with the Board of the Seimas (parliament).
President Dalia Grybauskaitė will consult the board of parliament about the candidate for prosecutor general once again next week.
On Friday Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with legal experts to discuss how to ensure transparent and effective work of the Prosecutor General's Office. Experts have noted that independence of the prosecutor general has been established in the Constitution. However, there have been repea...
Members of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) have suggested to change the procedure of appointing prosecutor general. Under current regulation, the prosecutor general is appointed by the president, with parliament's approval; a new bill suggests letting the governm...
After the Lithuanian parliament rejected two nominees for the post of prosecutor general, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that MPs should vote on such nominations openly rather than in a secret ballot, as is currently the case.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday rejected the nomination of Edita Dambrauskienė, 46, chairwoman of Kaišiadorys District Court, who was proposed by the president to the post of prosecutor general. Fifty MPs voted in favour of her candidacy, 49 were against and 19 abstained.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed Edita Dambrauskienė, the chairwoman of the Kaišiadorys District Regional Court, for the post of prosecutor general.
Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis on Monday strongly criticized the work of prosecutors in the January 13 case, saying that they have diminished the importance of the investigation.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office is handing to court the case of attempted coup of January 13, 1991, which is the most significant and the largest case in the history of Lithuania's law-enforcement, the office said.
Robertas Povilaitis who lost his father during the Soviet aggression in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, has turned to the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office, calling for a more active investigation of the liability of the Soviet Union's then leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office on Friday lodged an appeal with the country's Supreme Court against the acquittal of presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė in a state secret disclosure case.
After hackers broke into the website of the Lithuanian Army's Joint Staff, Lithuanian prosecutors sent out requests for legal assistance to foreign countries.
A London court has put an end to litigation over the extradition of Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, former shareholders of Lithuania’s bankrupt bank Snoras who have recently fled from the UK to Russia.