Special Investigation Service

Saulius Urbanavičius, a former head of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service, has been appointed as director of the Center of Registers.

A court on Thursday suspended Rytis Mykolas Račkauskas, the mayor of the northern Lithuanian town of Panevėžys, from office for three months amid corruption suspicions, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General's Office confirmed to BNS.

The mayor of the northern Lithuanian town of Panevėžys, Rytis Mykolas Račkauskas, was on Tuesday detained by the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service, alongside his advisor Gintarė Maskoliūnienė and three business representatives.

The mayor of the northern Lithuanian town of Panevėžys was on Tuesday detained by the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT).

The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT) officials on Tuesday are searching the offices of the Panevėžys local authority as part of an investigation involving the town's mayor, Rytis Mykolas Račkauskas.

Lithuania's Special Investigation Service, or STT, is investigating suspected bribery of foreign officials as part of its pre-trial investigation into suspected corruption at the Lithuanian National Blood Center.

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.

Almost a fifth of staff at Lithuanian municipalities are relatives, a new analysis carried out by the country's Special Investigation Service (STT) has revealed.

Gedvydas Vainauskas, CEO of the media group Lietuvos Rytas and editor-in-chief of the daily Lietuvos Rytas, denies that there were any illegal agreements between him and Rolandas Paksas, Lithuania's impeached former president and now a member of the European Parliament.

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.

Lithuania's MG Baltic business group, owned by Darius Mockus, on Wednesday called the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense's [NSGK] parliamentary probe into business groups' influence on political processes and its conclusions a "political farce".

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis hopes Saulius Urbanavičius, former head of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT), who has won the competition for the position of head of the Center of Registers, will solve the state enterprise's problems.

Saulius Urbanavičius, former head of Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT), has won the competition for the position of head of the Center of Registers.

The Lithuanian has this week turned to the Prosecutor General's Office over the combined heat and power (CHP) plant projects developed in Vilnius and Kaunas by the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday.