Private Sector

Lithuania's Public Procurement Office concluded that Lithuanian Military purchased military kitchen supplies and other supplies several times the market price from the Lithuanian company "Nota Bene".

With his change to Goldman Sachs, Jose Manuel Barroso provided a scandal. The EU Commission is now trying to mitigate potential conflicts of interest with a longer transitional period.

Prosecutor General‘s Office has decided to renew the investigation of allegedly fraudulent activities by company „BOD Group“ . The decision has been made during other investigation of alleged trafficking of power and abuse of office carried by Gedvydas Vainauskas and Antanas Zabulis. It is suspected that the were activities trying to affect the investigation by giving a bribe.

The Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas has ordered to check all the public procurement contracts signed this year and also ongoing public procurement tenders by the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The purpose is to check if the money for the defence are used in a rational way aftera report given by the Public Procurement Office

The case of Gedvydas Vainauskas, the head of media group „Lietuvos Rytas“ and Antanas Zabulis, who are suspected of trafficking of influence, reaches the court. Vainauskas could have had allegedly asked a leader of a party „Tvarka ir Teisingumas“ Rolandas Paksas, current member of the European Parliament to influence officials of an institution coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment.

Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas remained in office after the interpelation voting held by the Parliament. The minister had been accused of not taking the responsibility for the "Nota Bene" scandal when the company sold the ministry goods 8-10 times the price after being chosen as the wining bidder in several defence sector tenders.

Lithuanian Court of Appeals ruled that the former MP Vitas Matuzas and lobbyist Andrius Romanovskis were cleared of all charges. Both had been accused for using a charity fund for receiving financial contributions from business in return to favourable decision-making in the Parliament.

Court suspended an official of State Enterprise Lithuanian Agricultural and Food Market Regulation Agency upon the investigation of corruption related to public procurement procedures.

Lithuanian company "Nota Bene" which had been black-listed after the scandal targeting overpriced deals with the Lithuanian Military and the Ministry of Defence, continues winning the bids in several large public tenders.