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Grigeo Klaipeda, a cardboard producer based in Lithuania's western city of Klaipeda, which released untreated wastewater into the Curonian Lagoon, will be forced to suspend operations in the middle of May, the company’s CEO has confirmed to BNS.

Prosecutors from Klaipeda Regional Prosecutor's Office have brought suspicions against Gintautas Pangonis, president and major shareholder of Grigeo Group, a producer of cardboard, hygienic paper and wood fiberboard, over the release of untreated wastewater into the Curonian Lagoon by Grigeo Klaiped...

Grigeo Klaipeda, a cardboard producer based in Lithuania's western city of Klaipeda, which released untreated wastewater into the Curonian Lagoon, says that liability for environmental pollution lies with the company's former executives, first of all, Vidas Berzonskis who led the company in 2013-201...

Tests have found no contamination in fish from the Curonian Lagoon despite the release of untreated industrial wastewater by Grigeo's Klaipeda cardboard factory, the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service said on Friday.

Suspicions of possible pollution of the Curonian Lagoon have been brought against Grigeo Klaipeda and its three employees, with sources telling BNS that they include the company's former director Vidas Berzonskis who was in charged of the production facility from June, 2013 until last May.

Part of assets of Grigeo Klaipeda, a local cardboard producer that released untreated wastewater in the Curonian Lagoon, has been arrested, its managing director Tomas Ekinas confirmed it to BNS on Tuesday.

Rimi Baltic, a chain of over 260 supermarkets in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, has joined a boycott against Grigeo amid accusations that the group's Klaipeda cardboard factory released untreated wastewater into the Curonian Lagoon.

In response to the Curonian Lagoon pollution scandal, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has decided to donate 4,000 euros to a research institute in Klaipeda, thus symbolically returning the amount of money his election campaign received from Grigeo Group CEO Gintautas Pangonis.

Five Lithuanian furniture producers supplying their products to Swedish furniture store chain IKEA are suspending the purchase of products produced by Grigeo Klaipeda, a Klaipeda-based cardboard producer, after it released untreated wastewater into the Curonian Lagoon.

Partially untreated wastewater from Grigeo's cardboard factory in Klaipeda was released into the Curonian Lagoon though an emergency pipe, the paper and wood industry group's president and biggest shareholder said on Thursday.

Lithuanian Environment Minister Kestutis Mazeika accused on Wednesday Gintautas Pangonis, the CEO of Lithuania's paper and wood industry group Grigeo, of lying about the causes of pollution in the Curonian Lagoon, and said the damage to the environment could amount up to 60 million euros.

Specialists from Lithuania's Environmental Protection Department plan to carry out an unplanned inspection of Grigeo Klaipeda, a Klaipeda-based cardboard producer, amid an ongoing investigation by the country's law enforcement into alleged pollution of the Curonian Lagoon.

Wastewater could be released into the Curonian Lagoon due to a breakdown, not intentionally, Gintautas Pangonis, president and major shareholder at Lithuanian paper and wood industry group Grigeo, says.

Lithuanian prosecutors on Monday launched an investigation into environmental pollution involving untreated wastewater in Klaipeda.