The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has appealed a ruling in the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping case to the Supreme Court and asked it to send the case back to the Court of Appeals Court re-examination.
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Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has been named a victim in a pre-trial investigation looking into the publishing of phone conversation transcripts.
The European Parliament will consider Lithuanian prosecutors' request to strip Rolandas Paksas, the Order and Justice party's leader, of his immunity as an MEP.
Cannabis activists scheduled to hold a protest rally outside the Seimas in Vilnius next month have been targeted by prosecutors who suspect the rally sanction may have violated the public interest.
Lithuanian prosecutors have asked the European Parliament to lift the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP and leader of the Order and Justice Party Rolandas Paksas.
Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part in the killing of Jews in Lithuania during World War Two. The list was compiled by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre in Lithuania.
Members of the Order and Justice party, part of the ruling coalition party in Lithuania and whose Rolandas Paksas leader has been accused of corruption, held a protest outside the house of Lithuanian state prosecutor, Irmantas Mikelionis, in Vilnius District yesterday.
A posthumous award of military rank to a man suspected of involvement in the Holocaust has caught attention of the Lithuanian parliament speaker who has asked for explanation from the president and the defence minister.
Neringa Venckienė, a former MP and a central figure in the so-called Garliava paedophilia scandal who is wanted in Lithuania, has asked her supporters for donations to fight extradition from the United States.
On Friday, the Lithuanian Jewish Community called for the publication of “general data” on about 2,000 people who, according to historical research, may have participated in the Holocaust during World War II.
