Special Investigation Service

Lithuania's Special Investigation Service has on Tuesday detained Dainius Bardauskas, mayor of the country's northeastern district of Kupiskis, representing the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the SIS's spokeswoman Renata Endrusyte confirmed it to BNS Lithuania.

Lithuania's outgoing President Dalia Grybauskaite on Saturday presented state awards to Prosecutor General Evaldas Pasilis and Zydrunas Bartkus, head of the Special Investigation Service, the winners of the Vienna Biennale's Golden Lion, as well as other public figures and foreign officials.

Several Lithuanian companies have been slapped with fines amounting to 978,000 euros in total for cartel agreements in bidding for municipal projects in three northern districts.

Marius Pulkauninkas, chief forest officer of the State Forestry Enterprise of Lithuania, is stepping down, the environment minister told BNS Lithuania.

Following media reports that the UK-based fintech startup Revolut, which already has an e-money license in Lithuania, plans to apply for an e-money license in Ireland, the company says the move does not change its plans in Lithuania.

Rinat Nasirov, a Russian citizen suspected of giving a bribe to have a Schengen visa issued by Lithuania's embassy in Moscow, has been released on bail, the Special Investigation Service (STT) told BNS on Friday.

Officers from Lithuania's Special Investigation Service's Vilnius division on Sunday detained Rimantas Sidlauskas, a former diplomat and now director general of the Association of Lithuanian Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (ALCCIC), and another two persons as part of a pre-trial investigat...

On Monday, the composition of municipal councils is beginning to emerge.

The graft case involving eight judges is the greatest blow to Lithuanian judges and courts since independence was recovered. It is correctly emphasised that we should not rush to conclusions and that currently the suspects only stand accused and their guilt has not been proven.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) has appealed to the Special Investigation Service (STT) with a request to evaluate whether financial support from Klaipėda business to Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) candidate to Klaipėda mayor, Arvydas Vaitkus is not a case of open political...

The Special Investigation Service (STT) has initiated a pre-trial investigation on suspect large-scale property damage and potentially criminal acts of the company’s former heads, a Ministry of Transport and Communications press release states according to lrt.lt.

In order to resolve the country’s problems with teachers’ wage payments and to find resources for this, audit is to be initiated in the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as 17 of its subordinate regulatory institutions. The audit was initiated by Minister of Transport and Communications Rok...

Members of Seimas approved the 2019 state budget and municipal budget financial metric project on Tuesday with 84 MPs voting in favour, 41 against and 5 abstaining.

Lithuania has, so far, achieved modest results in combating bribery in international business transactions, but the country has taken significant steps to improve these efforts, Transparency International said in a report published on Wednesday.

Lithuania's elite sees Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department (VSD), as being the most influential among the country's civil servants and lawyers, Delfi.lt reported on Monday.

Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), expects the Seimas to hold hearings in the fall on whether the country's key energy projects are in line with its national security interests.

Officers from Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT) on Tuesday detained in Vilnius District three members of a special commission assessing foreigners' knowledge of the Lithuanian language and Constitution and six private persons in a suspected corruption case.