Prosecutor General's Office

Petras Gražulis, a member of the Lithuanian parliament whose office has recently been searched in an influence peddling investigation, was summoned for questioning at the Prosecutor General's Office as a special witness on Tuesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking h...

Vytautas Gapšys of the Lithuanian Labour Party is resigning as member of the Seimas. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The high-profile corruption case, which has already seen suspicions brought against MG Baltic vice-president Raimonas Kurlianskis and former leader of the Liberal Movement Eligijus Masiulis, may implicate more big names.

The Lithuanian police have prevented almost counterfeit 50-euro notes, totalling €3.5 million, from entering circulation in the country and abroad. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Vietnam has agreed to hand over Sergey Rachinstein, a businessman sentenced for embezzlement and fraud, to Lithuania. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The prosecutor investigating the corruption case of Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys says he will ask other members of the Lithuanian parliament to answer some questions "in the near future". To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has lodged an appeal with the Lithuanian Court of Appeals against a Vilnius court's ruling not to extradite Syrym Shalabayev, a Kazakh citizen who has been granted political asylum in Lithuania, for prosecution in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. To read this articl...

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.

Lithuanian Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys dismissed government investigators' suspicions that he had taken a €25,000 bribe from MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office has analysed a list of some 2,000 people suspected of involvement in the Holocaust, but will not be pursuing charges, because not one of them is still alive, 15min.lt reports.

Latvian-Russian national Konstantin Mikhailov will serve a life in prison sentence for his role in the 1991 Medininkai checkpoint massacre after the Lithuanian Court of Appeals upheld the verdict on Monday.

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.

A case in which a Russian citizen and an former officer of the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base are charged with spying has been handed over to the Šiauliai Regional Court, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

The Bank of Lithuania has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to investigate alleged slander by a media group.

Former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis has been questioned by prosecutors on Tuesday who brought formal suspicions of influence peddling and unlawful enrichment against the politician. Masiulis rejects the charges.

MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis, who has been detained on suspicions of influence peddling and bribing a politician, is also suspected of unlawful access to state secrets, prosecutors say.

MP Eligijus Masiulis, who is facing charges of bribe taking and influence peddling, said after being questioned by prosecutors that he was ready to prove his innocence.

MP Eligijus Masiulis, who has suspended his leadership of the Liberal Movement pending investigation into suspicions that he could have accepted a bribe, arrived at the Prosecutor General's Office on Monday.

Lithuanian prosecutors will ask a court to issue an arrest warrant for MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis who is suspected in a bribery and influence peddling investigation.

The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT) said on Thursday that it is investigating suspicions that a business group has offered a €100,000 bribe to Eligijus Masiulis, the leader of the Liberal Movement.