Special Investigation Service

Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT) has brought suspicions against businessman Tomas Milaknis, CEO of Alna, as part of an investigation into alleged violations during public procurement at the State Social Insurance Fund (SODRA), sources have told BNS.

The Vilnius County Court has declared its decision in a case regarding corruption in the Migration Department. Two workers who admitted their guilt had their charges waived and three more individuals were charged and face fines.

After a stream of allegations of misconduct and corruption against the Government, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and the Social Democrats have changed their approach by starting to fight back against what they see as a sustained campaign by Lithuania‘s President, according to two p...

During a congress later in March, Lithuania's Order and Justice party, part of the current ruling coalition, will sign an agreement to unite with various political parties, public committees, non-governmental and public organizations.

Leader of the conservative Homeland Union, an opposition party, Gabrielius Landsbergis says that the minister of environment must resign after investigators published incriminating transcripts of his phone conversations.

Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT) broke the news on Monday that it was investigating suspected influence peddling that involves the leader of a ruling party, the head of a major media group and a grocery supermarket chain. Here are the key facts:

The latest round of investigations of politicians by the Special Investigation Service (STT) is yet another signal that political parties in Lithuania are still not transparent, according to Vitalijus Gailius, the head of the Parliamentary Anticorruption Commission speaking on Žinių Radijas.

The supermarket chain Norfa has been named in an influence peddling investigation that involves the leader of one of Lithuania's ruling parties and the head of the Lietuvos Rytas media group. Norfa owner Dainius Dundulis denies allegations against him and his business.

MEP Rolandas Paksas, leader of the Order and Justice party, was questioned in an influence peddling investigation on Monday. The Special Investigations Service (STT) said the politician was allegedly offered a bribe by Gedgaudas Vainauskas, shareholder of the Lietuvos Rytas daily.

MEP Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the ruling Order and Justice party, was interrogated as a special witness in a trade in influence investigation by the Special Investigation Service.

The ministers of environment and agriculture will have to go if they are caught lying about investigations they are currently subject to, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has suggested on Monday evening after meeting with the president.

Not a single conviction for bribing a member of the medical profession in Lithuania has been recorded in the seven years from 2006 to 2013, according to Transparency International Lithuania.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius was questioned by Special Investigation Service (STT) officers investigating construction fraud in Druskininkai.

It is little wonder that the resignation of Aivaras Abromavičius, Ukraine’s Lithuanian-born Minister of Economy, has created a political uproar and a government crisis. The move should also encourage Lithuania and like-minded countries to sharpen policies towards Kiev.

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...

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.

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.

Many Lithuanian politicians have no moral standards at all and will do whatever they think they can get away with, with many operating in a Brezhnev way of doing things, according to political scientist Liutauras Gudžinskas who was speaking on Žinių Radijas.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to have a "serious conversation" with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius about corruption suspicions that have plagued his cabinet over the last week. The meeting is scheduled for next week, after Butkevičius comes back from vacation.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is not planning to cut short his vacation in the Caribbean despite several of his cabinet ministers becoming embroiled in controversy.