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A high-profile corruption case has revealed an "unseen Lithuania" where efforts are continuing to sell the state and take control of it, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her annual State of the Nation Address to the Seimas on Tuesday.

Raimondas Šukys, a minister in several former Lithuanian governments, has taken the State Security Department, or VSD, to court over the intelligence agency's claim that people from MG Baltic, one of the country's largest business groups, exerted influence on him.

A major political corruption case involving MG Baltic, one of Lithuania's largest business groups, and two political parties went for trial on Thursday, but the first hearing was adjourned to Friday due to the absence of MP Gintaras Steponavičius, a defendant.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė describes a recently completed parliamentary investigation into interest groups' influence on political processes as "a political opinion of the Seimas" with no legal implications and waits for concrete proposals.

The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday approved the conclusions of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense's probe into unlawful influence on political processes, in which Russia's Rosatom and Lithuania's MG Baltic business groups were named as threats.

The leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) expects the Seimas to set up a new parliamentary commission to continue the Committee on National Security and Defense's (NSGK) investigation into interest groups' influence on political processes.

Interest groups' interference in Lithuania's political process was systematic and went on for years, which cannot be tolerated, the chairman of the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) said on Tuesday.

Media owners in Lithuania should be subjected to the same requirements as investors in the country's strategic companies, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), will on Tuesday present the findings of a parliamentary investigation into business and interest groups' influence on political processes and decision-makers to the full Seimas.

Lithuanian prosecutors refused on Monday to open a pre-trial investigation regarding the disclose of a document from the State Security Department (VSD) in the media.

Lawmakers' proposals on new requirements for television owners and managers might increase the media's dependence on politicians, a media expert warns.

The state could recover estimated 1.5 billion euros in alleged damage done by business groups' influence on political processes, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), says following the committee's investigation.

The Seimas of Lithuania's Committee on National Security and Defense on Friday registered the conclusions of its parliamentary probe into business groups' influence on political process and its annexes on the legal act base.

The leaders of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) on Thursday called for new investigations into businesses' influence on politics.