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Žilvinas Marcinkevičius will be allowed to sell his 15% stake in Vilniaus Prekyba, the largest business group in Lithuania, to Lithuanian billionaire Nerijus Numavičius' Bertona Holdings Limited after a Vilnius court rejects a request by another shareholder to stop the deal.
The Vilnius County Administrative Court is prepared to deliver its verdict on the appeal of the first Iraqi family to be transferred to Lithuania as part of the EU agreement on refugee resettlement.
The Vilnius County Court has declared its decision in a case regarding corruption in the Migration Department. Two workers who admitted their guilt had their charges waived and three more individuals were charged and face fines.
To ensure a swifter and smoother hearing of the January 13 case, Vilnius County Court has decided to appoint substitute lawyers for all defendants with state-provided lawyers.
Justice will not be achieved in full in the January 13, 1991, attempted coup case without the presence of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, according to Lithuania's first post-independence leader, Vytautas Landsbergis.
Hearings of the Vilnius County Court were interrupted on Wednesday after one of the lawyers fell ill in the courtroom. Ambulance was called to the courthouse and the hearing was adjourned.
On Wednesday, a Vilnius court will open hearings into the case surrounding the 13 January 1991 attempted coup, which is one of the biggest trials in Lithuania's history in terms of the size and the number of suspects.
