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The council of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) has failed to ensure sufficient control of public procurement of the national broadcaster, sometimes having no idea of the price of certain broadcasts, says Diana Vilytė, the head of the Public Procurement Service (VPT).

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.

Arnoldas Tvaronavičius has resigned as head of the Border Crossing Infrastructure Directorate under the Lithuanian Transport Ministry amid suspicions of non-transparent public procurement practices in the authority.

The Kaunas Remand Prison, which was recently scrutinized by a few control institutions and checked by the Lithuanian Justice Ministry, has been subjected to new checks after its chief accountant Rasa Kazėnienė again turned to the ministry.

The Lithuanian Police Department, which is set to buy at least 120 new cars, drafted conditions for the tender for a single supplier, the Public Procurement Agency said.

Lithuania's Justice Minister Milda Vainiūtė on Wednesday said she sacked Edvardas Kviatkauskas from director of the Kaunas Remand Prison over gross violations after an in-service check.

Lithuania's Financial Crime Investigation Service on Tuesday conducted searches in the premises of Irdaiva, one of the country's largest construction companies, as part of the probe of fraud suspicions in public procurement deals. Irdaiva's CEO and sole owner Irmantas Kubilius has been detained.

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.

Maintenance of state roads in Lithuania will be handed over to a single state-run company, Kelių Priežiūra (Road Maintenance), by the end of this year. Lithuania's Transport and Communications Minister Rokas Masiulis says that restructuring of the sector had been in the plans for a long time.

Acting on a tip-off about possible lack of transparency in the tender for contractor for reconstruction of the Vilnius Concert and Sports Palace, Lithuania's Property Bank has terminated talks with the winner – the consortium of Irdaiva construction company. Documents available to BNS show that a me...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed under the 2017 state budget project which already passed in Seimas.

Lithuania should allocate more than 2 percent of its gross domestic product for its national defence, the country's new defence minister said on Tuesday.

Germany's Karcher-Futuretech maintains it did not supply any kitchen utensils to Lithuanian company Nota Bene, which later sold the items to Lithuania's Armed Forces, public relations chief of the German enterprise said.