Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė has opened a pre-trial investigation into terrorism after an undersea telecommunications cable between Lithuania and Sweden was severed last weekend.
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A public prosecutor has asked court to allow Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė to turn to the Seimas over lifting the parliamentary immunity of MP-elect Remigijus Žemaitaitis, leader of the Nemunas Dawn, who is standing trial for alleged antisemitic statements.
Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė has confirmed several arrests in the international investigation into DHL incendiary parcels sent by air from Lithuania to Germany and the United Kingdom. Individuals were detained not just in Lithuania, she says.
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė on Monday addressed President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola requesting to lift MEP Petras Gražulis’ legal immunity, a move that would allow prosecuting, arresting or otherwise restricting his freedom in a criminal investigation.
Conservative MP Bronislovas Matelis has addressed the Prosecutor General’s Office asking it to probe MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis’ latest public statements over treason, potential collaboration with foreign powers and incitement of violence.
Lithuania’s electricity and natural gas distribution company Energijos skirstymo operatorius (ESO) promises to compensate consumers for overpayments.
Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė on Thursday addressed members of the Seimas and asked them to lift MP Petras Gražulis’ immunity from prosecution as he is being investigated for insulting 5 members of the LGBT community last year.
Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė on Tuesday formally asked the Seimas to lift the legal immunity of MP Petras Gražulis, who had allegedly ridiculed and stigmatised a group of people in public because of their sexual orientation.
On Thursday, 19 October, Panevėžys Regional Court began the trial of former MP Kristijonas Bartoševičius, who is suspected of child sexual abuse.
A parliamentary ad hoc commission said on Friday it had found legal grounds to impeach MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis over his antisemitic statements.
Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė told a parliamentary commission on Wednesday that MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis was interviewed a day earlier in a pre-trial investigation into his potentially antisemitic statements on social media.
The Prosecutor General’s Office has decided to launch a pre-trial investigation over information revealed by Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas, who announced after a meeting of the State Defence Council on 24 July that Lithuania would purchase German tanks.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says she has confidence in National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas amidst an uproar after the minister’s social media posts on Lithuania’s intended procurement of German tanks.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis believes the assessment from prosecutors on the national defence minister’s public post on buying German tanks may determine the way institutions and politicians will be handling restricted information in the future.
Deputy Justice Minister Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė has welcomed the recent decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office to open a pre-trial investigation into alleged transfers of Ukrainian children to Belarus.
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court (KT) has judged that forcible accommodation of migrants in foreigners’ registration centres after they had illegally crossed the state border was unconstitutional. Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says authorities started lifting restrictions on the movement of migra...
The Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Friday that a prosecutor has handed in his resignation letter following media reports that he attempted to solicit sex from a teen.
The coronavirus pandemic and the Seimas election have been named the key 2020 events in Lithuania, according to Lithuanian journalists surveyed by BNS.
Vitas Vasiliauskas, the board chairman of the central Bank of Lithuania, has been named the most influential civil servant in Lithuania in the traditional elite survey, the delfi.lt news website reports on Tuesday.
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday refused to allow prosecuting MP Petras Grazulis in the so-called Judex case after 65 lawmakers voted in favor of Grazulis losing his legal immunity. The motion needed at least 71 votes in favor.
