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Prosecutors have brought formal suspicions of influence peddling and large-scale bribery against Vytautas Gapšys, the Lithuanian Labour Party's deputy chairman who has recently resigned as a member of the Seimas.

Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission on Tuesday announced that the mandate of the Labour Party's MP Vytautas Gapšys had been terminated. Gapšys is facing corruption charges and has himself asked to be relieved of his duties as an MP. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clic...

Lithuanian MP Vytautas Gapšys of the Labour Party has handed a request to the Central Electoral Commission to terminate his mandate as of August 3. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian parliamentarians, both from the ruling parties and the opposition, say the decision by Vytautas Gapšys, first vice-chairman of the Labour Party, to resign as a member of the Seimas is the right, but belated step. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

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 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.

Lithuania’s Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis on Thursday addressed the Seimas (parliament) with a request to strip Vytautas Gapšys, a Labour Party MP, of legal immunity. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Prosecutors have revealed how they believe Vytautas Gapšys, the Labour Party MP who is suspected of corruption, might have acted in favor of the MG Baltic concern, which is also being investigated for potentially having bribed the Labour Party's chairman, Eligijus Masiulis. To read this article, try...

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.

Amid an investigation into political corruption suspicions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is calling on voters not to boycott next October's general elections.

A Vilnius court has rejected the prosecutor's request to extend the remand of Raimondas Kurlianskis, vice-president of MB Baltic, one of the country's biggest business groups.

The Lithuanian Labour Party's vice-Chairman Vytautas Gapsys has denied allegations of corruptions against him following raids on his home and parliamentary office by anti-corruption police this morning.

Lithuania's Constitutional Court has refused to rule on a case of convicted Labour Party MP facing impeachment in parliament.

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.

The Lithuanian parliament moved on Thursday to launch an impeachment process against Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys.