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Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis intends to turn to the parliament's National Security and Defence Committee with a suggestion to check whether conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas can continue working there after being questioned in the MG Baltic corruption case.
Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday gave a go-ahead to the appointment of Žydrūnas Bartkus, 42-year-old master of law, to head the Special Investigation Service (STT), the country's main counter-corruption agency.
Suspicions of abuse, unlawful use of an electronic mean of payment and document forgery have been brought against Viktoras Daunys, director of General Povilas Plechavičius Cadet Lyceum based in Lithuania's second city Kaunas, the Special Investigation Service (STT) confirmed on Wednesday.
The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT), the country's main counter-corruption agency, should mainly focus on public procurement in various fields, says Žydrūnas Bartkus, candidate for director of the institution.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed appointing Žydrūnas Bartkus, deputy director of the Special Investigation Service (STT), to head the agency for five years, presidential adviser Rasa Svetikaitė said on Monday.
Lithuania's parliament is starting the spring session on Saturday – the political season is expected to be hot from the very start, with the parliament scheduled to vote next week on the impeachment of Mindaugas Bastys of the group of non-attached members.
Corruption has been habitually singled out as one of the major afflictions slowing down Lithuania’s development, a problem put down to the country’s Soviet legacy as well as frailty of its young institutions. Jovitas Raškevičius, of the Special Investigation Service (STT), notes that the effort Lith...
Suspicions have been brought against eight individuals in the probe into suspected corruption at one of the country's largest hospitals Santaros Clinic, the Special Investigation Service (STT) said.
Lithuanian law-enforcement officials conducting a probe into suspected corruption at one of the country's largest hospitals on Wednesday visited Atea, a company of the Norwegian-owned IT solutions group Atea Baltic.
Kęstutis Strupas, director general of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, one of Lithuania's major hospitals, has been suspended from his job on suspicions of abuse amid a large-scale corruption probe by law-enforcement bodies, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Lithuanian law-enforcement officials said on Wednesday they they were conducting an investigation into suspected large-scale corruption at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, one of Lithuania's major hospitals.
Lithuania's opposition has collected signatures for impeachment of MP Artūras Skardžius of the Social Democratic Labor group who may have confused his public and private interests by taking care of the renewable resource sector.
A criminal case in which former top executives of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) are suspected of abuse of office in organizing an auction of the plant's assets worth 1.5 million euros is going to court.
The Lithuanian parliament's National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday heard information from the Special Investigation Service (STT) about possibly unlawful influence of businesses and interest groups upon political processes, however, the committee's chairman Vytautas Bakas refused to el...
Lithuania's Special Investigation Service (STT) has opened a pre-trial investigation into possible abuse based on the conclusions of the parliamentary Anti-Corruption Commission about creation of the electronic health system.
Here are some of the major events to watch for in Lithuania's politics, culture and society in 2018:
Lithuanian MEP Rolandas Paksas, Lietuvos Rytas media group CEO Gedvydas Vainauskas and businessman Antanas Zabulis plead not guilty on charges of influence peddling but will provide testimony to court.
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...
