On Wednesday, Šiauliai regional prosecutor’s office has announced the search of the leader of the Way of Courage party, Neringa Venckinė, who has disappeared from the Seimas, and allegedly from Lithuania, writes www.delfi.lt. “Having exhausted all possibilities to determine the place of residence of the …
BNS Egidijus Bieliūnas, a judge of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania, is proposed as a judge of the EU General Court for a six-year term. The Government of Lithuania backed the candidate on Wednesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told journalists after a Cabinet meeting. Following …
BNS The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has on Tuesday turned to a Vilnius court with a request to find 20 foreign persons, who are considered to be suspects in the criminal investigation into the attempted coup of 13 January, 1991. The Prosecutor General’s Office said …
BNS Living in Lithuania since February, influential Georgian MP Givi Targamadze, accused by Russia of inciting unrest in the country, plans to return to his native country. He is able to do so after Interpol cancelled Russia’s request to arrest him and removed his search …
BNS The Seimas is about to get back to constitutional amendments on restrictions for impeached persons or persons who broke their oath on running for parliament. The Seimas Constitutional Commission is considering a 10-year ban as one of the options, the daily ‘Lietuvos Zinios’ writes …
BNS The prosecutor of Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Friday failed to end his final speech at the Labour Party’s fraudulent bookkeeping case hearing. Verseckas fell short of a couple of hours for the remaining around 40 out of 185 pages in his speech. Prosecutor …
BNS Lithuania’s Labour Party may have paid fraud money for the 2004 parliamentary election campaign, prosecutor Saulius Verseckas said in his closing speech in court on Friday. In his words, more than 826,000 litas (EUR 239,400) from the bookkeeping fraud could have been spent on …
BNS State prosecutor, Saulius Verseckas, is to continue his final speech in the Labour Party’s trial on Friday, although the party’s lawyer had requested an adjournment in hearings. The Labour Party’s lawyer, Vladimiras Buslovičius, said at the hearing that a plea had been filed with …
BNS Saulius Verseckas, prosecutor of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office, says that the Labour Party’s bookkeeping fraud trial is a unique instance that revealed the shortcomings of the criminal process and the possibilities to delay proceedings for years. The state prosecutor spoke on Thursday in …
A member of the Way of Courage fraction in the Seimas, Povilas Gylys seems to be lost in his statements on why the leader of his fraction, Neringa Venckienė, has not been showing up in the parliament lately, writes Šarūnas Černiauskas of www.delfi.lt. On Thursday, …
BNS A Vilnius court on Tuesday opened hearings into suspected buying of votes in prisons in support of the Labour Party during the 2012 parliamentary election. Among the four defendants charged with impediment to exercise the voting right are the Labour Party’s former candidate for …
According to www.delfi.lt with reference to the daily ‘Lietuvos žinios’, MP Neringa Venckienė, the elder of the parliamentary fraction The Way of Courage, might have left Lithuania to seek political asylum abroad. A former judge, Venckienė did not show up in the Seimas for four …
The Seimas has adopted amendments to the Law on Insurance, harmonising the Law with the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) delivered on 1 March, 2011, The Baltic Course reported with reference to the news agency ELTA. The adopted amendments …
BNS Members of the Way of Courage party’s political group in the Seimas claim they don’t know where their elder Neringa Venckienė is. Venckeinė hasn’t been seen in the parliament for several weeks, and has not presented any documentation justifying her absence. MP Vytautas Matulevičius …
According to new portal the Baltic Course, after assessing the interim report on the financial standing of the notorious bank Ukio Bankas, presented by its Temporary Administrator, according to which the bank’s assets are less than its liabilities, the Board of the Bank of Lithuania …
BNS The leader of Lithuania’s ruling Labour Party Viktor Uspaskich will have to pay a fine of 3,900 litas (EUR 1,130) for failure to appear in court without a legitimate reason, a Vilnius court ruled on Friday. The fine was proposed by Saulius Verseckas of …
BNS The Lithuanian Labour Party’s chairman Viktor Uspaskich failed to appear in Vilnius court on Friday morning, saying he was in Kaunas clinic. “Uspaskich was reported to be in Kaunas clinic for urgent tests and promised to be in court in three or four hours,” …
BNS Giving evidence in court, leader of Lithuania’s Labour Party, Viktor Uspaskich, charged with fraud in the party’s fraudulent bookkeeping case, on Thursday stated that a comprehensive financial expert evaluation is needed to establish the truth in this case. He also continued criticizing conclusions by …
BNS The leader of Lithuania’s ruling Labour Party on Wednesday told a Vilnius court he would testify in the so-called bookkeeping fraud case. “I would very much like to testify. To defend myself against ungrounded accusations, I will give testimony in written form, please consider …
BNS A Vilnius court on Wednesday resumed hearings of the Labour Party’s bookkeeping fraud case after a week-long delay. MP Vytautas Gapsys read his testimony in court but refused to answer questions and pleaded not guilty. Meanwhile, the party’s former accountant Marina Liutkevičienė said she …
