Petro Vovchuk, a former chairman of the management board at Ukraine's State Food and Grains Corporation wanted in his home country on corruption suspicions, has asked for political asylum in Lithuania, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Political asylum
3 straipsnių
In the two years since he came to Lithuania, Russian political activist Yuri Gorsky has been twice refused political asylum in the country.
Roman Ruzhechko, a suspect in a Russian oil pipeline contamination probe who was detained in Vilnius earlier this week, has asked for political asylum in Lithuania, a court spokeswoman said on Friday.
