Chief Official Ethics Commission

Lithuania's Environment Minister Kęstutis Navickas on Tuesday survived an opposition-initiated interpellation against him after lawmakers voted in favor of his answers.

Žydrūnas Bartkus, the new head of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT), suggests overhauling the way lobbying is regulated in Lithuania. In his words, the country needs a special procedure for businessmen with specific interests to act only through lobbyists.

Edmundas Sakalauskas, the new head of Lithuania's Chief Official Ethics Commission, says the creation of a register of private interests and ensuring transparent lobbyism are among his main priorities.

The shadows of abuse on Lithuania's Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas and his family discredit him and damages the reputation of the rest of the government, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Lithuania's Environment Minister Kęstutis Navickas duly stepped aside from the decisions to earmark support to his former employer and consequently did not violate the law, the Chief Official Ethics Commission concluded on Wednesday.

The Lithuanian parliament's acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster's operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking the government to earmark money and call a tender for LRT's external audit.

Lithuanian MP Artūras Skardžius took care of renewable resources at the parliament, therefore, could have violated his public and private interests in public service, the parliament's Anti-Corruption Commission concluded, advising the Seimas to turn to the Chief Official Ethics Commission for a deci...

Opposition members of the municipal council in Lithuania's fifth-biggest city of Panevėžys have launched an effort to oust Mayor Rytis Mykolas Račkauskas, the local news website Jp.lt reported.

Lithuania's former education and science minister Audronė Pitrėnienė confused her public and private interest by taking care of the premises of King Mindaugas Vocational Education Center and later taking a post in the center, the Chief Official Ethics Commission found on Wednesday.

Backstage operations of Gintautas Kevišas, the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), have turned into a "shadow play" and fall short of the requirement of transparent management and responsibility of an institution's chief, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Romas Valentukevičius as head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) with 99 votes in favour, none against and none abstaining.

Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Lithuanian chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK), says he would resign from the post on Friday, March 10.

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, says that the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and its ruling coalition partner, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), unanimously approve of his decision to sack Romas Valentukevičius as head of the Chief Official Ethics...

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis of the ruling Peasant and Green Union has pledged to initiate sacking Romas Valentukevičius from the post of the head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission.

Romas Valentukevičius refuses to resign as chairman of the Chief Official Ethics Commission (COEC).

Romas Valentukevičius said on Friday that he would resign as head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Friday urged Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission, to resign.

Lithuania's Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis of the Labour Party had a clash of interests by failing to declare links with the Bulgarian-registered company Agrolitas, the Chief Official Ethics Commission has found.