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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.

A major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's largest business groups, and two political parties, the Liberal Movement and the Labor Party, goes to court this week.

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...

Lithuania's law-enforcement have closed a 589-day investigation into political corruption allegations of one of the country's largest business concerns MG Baltic, the Liberal Movement and the Labour Party.

Lithuania's law-enforcement on Thursday announced having completed the pre-trial investigation in the political corruption case of one of the country's largest business concerns MG Baltic and two political parties, the Liberal Movement and the Labour Party.

The corruption suspicions brought by Lithuania's law-enforcement against MG Baltic concern and two political parties have no major effect upon the concern's operations, Darius Mockus, president and owner of MG Baltic, told Verslo Žinios business daily.

MG Baltic Vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis, who is suspected of bribery and influence peddling in Lithuania's biggest-ever political corruption case, is leaving the group.

Lithuania's law-enforcement conducting a probe into corruption by MG Baltic concern and a few political parties say that the expanded suspicions against the Liberal Movement are final. The party's acting leader Eugenijus Gentvilas says the broader suspicions have to do with the upcoming election for...

MG Baltic, one of the biggest business groups in Lithuania, transferred money to bank accounts of a fund and a public establishment linked with the Liberal Movement, not the party's accounts, after the party's former Vice-Chairman Gintaras Steponavičius met with MG Baltic representatives, the Prosec...

Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has been testified in the political corruption investigation surrounding MG Baltic concern.

The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service has brought suspicions of influence peddling and bribery against MG Baltic, one of the largest concerns in Lithuania operated by Darius Mockus, SIS chief Saulius Urbanavičius confirmed to BNS.

Impeachment proceedings may be opened against persons holding certain posts for crimes committed before taking office, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says that the influence peddling suspicions brought by the Special Investigation Service against a Vilnius prosecutor harm the reputation of state institutions.

Živilė Pinskuvienė, the mayor of the Širvintos district, was elected as the new leader of the Lithuanian Labour Party on Sunday.

The Lithuanian Labour Party does not consider merger with the ruling Social Democrats or other parties, says the party's acting leader Vytautas Gapšys.

The Lithuanian Supreme Court on Thursday concluded hearings in the Labour Party's fraudulent bookkeeping case and is expected to issue its ruling on Decemer 30.The court's ruling will be final and not subject to appeal.

The Lithuanian Labour Party's council on November 3 named ten candidates for the vacant post of the party's chairman, its caretaker leader, Vytautas Gapšys, said, noting that the list may not be final.