A court in Lithuania's northern city of Panevėžys starts hearing a criminal case on Monday, in which former top executives of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) are suspected of abuse of office in organizing an auction of the plant's assets worth 1.5 million euros.
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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.
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, 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 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.
The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) has completed its probe into interest groups' influence on political processes and now asks for permission to declassify the materials of the investigation.
Raimondas Kurlianskis, former vice-president of the Lithuanian MG Baltic concern, is charged with paying bribes to politicians for influence to adoption of laws, determining winners of public procurement tenders and appointment of officials, law-enforcement said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian prosecutors on Wednesday temporarily restricted the Order and Justice Party's rights to 223,000 euros in state budget allocations, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
The Lithuanian parliament's investigative commission on the activities of Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) will ask the Special Investigation Service, or STT, to assess the transparency of the public broadcaster's program procurement, the panel's chairman said on Wednesday.
Joana Bikulčienė, top executive of the Lithuanian National Blood Center who has been detained for two weeks, is suspected of aiming to help a private company to monopolize the collection of blood plasma and supply of blood constituents in Lithuania.
Jovitas Raškevičius and Egidijus Radzevičius have been appointed as deputy directors of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service, or STT.
Žydrūnas Bartkus is on Friday taking office as director of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service, or STT.
Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, is skeptical about the proposal to remove conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas from the committee after he was questioned in a political corruption investigation.
Lithuania's conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas has no intentions to leave the parliament's National Security and Defence Committee after being questioned as witness in the MG Baltic corruption case, however, will stand aside from the parliamentary inquiry on possibly unlawful influence upon politica...