Head of intelligence agency denies it was asked to collect information on Nausėda’s team during 2019 election

Director of the State Security Department (VSD) Darius Jauniškis denies that during the 2019 presidential campaign he was asked to collect information about people surrounding then presidential candidate Gitanas Nausėda who later won the election. He says the VSD screened the environment of all presidential candidates because this is normal practice.

The issue was raised in a book Pranešėjas ir prezidentas (A Whistle-blower and the President) recently published by investigative journalists Birutė Davidonytė and Dovydas Pancerovas.
“I can tell you that nobody had asked me for this, neither the president nor members of his staff. This simply was not the case,” Jauniškis said in an interview to TV3 on Tuesday.