Overview

• Gintautas Paluckas tendered his resignation on July 31 after media exposés and public protests over alleged irregularities in his business dealings.
• Lithuanian anti-corruption, police and financial crime agencies have opened inquiries into Dankora and Garnis, companies tied to Paluckas’s family.
• Coalition partners have launched talks to form a new government to prevent an executive vacuum weeks before Russia and Belarus begin joint military drills.
• Press reports revealed he paid only €4,900 of a €16,500 fine from his 2012 conviction for abusing office in a Vilnius rat-extermination contract.
• President Gitanas Nausėda pressed for a parliamentary confidence vote in response to widespread protests and opposition threats to leave the coalition.