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Such a possibility would arise if it became clear that D. Gaižauskas, completing a special questionnaire submitted to the Department of Homeland Security (SSD), in which a member of parliament must answer many questions, did not point to the fact that he had worked with a former police officer. KGB Soviet counterintelligence for almost a decade. security captain Romualdas Kubilius.
Tank: such information is in the public interest.
After hearing this fact from the biography of D. Gaižauskas, the former president of Seimas NSGK, now representative of the Mixed Group, MP V. Bakas says that “the information on whether the head of one of the most important committees of Seimas indicated properly all circumstances to obtain permission to work with confidential information is in the public interest and the public has a right to know. “
Currently, a retiree from the Interior Ministry, former head of the Kalvarija Police Commissioner, R. Kubilius “Delfi” not only confirmed that he had worked with D. Gaižauskas, but also assured that the latter “was definitely aware of the fact that I worked at the KGB in the past. “
“It just caught my eye then. I never hid my biography, I went through the process of lustration, I worked in restored Lithuanian customs, managing the police work. As far as I can remember from my working hours, after the Law of Lustration Approved in 2007, after a long trial and demonstrating my loyalty to the Lithuanian state, I myself have completed the information on my previous work in the USSR KGB. Such information was mandatory to indicate, “R. Kubilius himself told Delfi.
I do not consider it necessary to specify
However, he was skeptical as to whether Mr. Gaižauskas should inform the Department of State Security about the fact that his former long-term chief of service had once worked for the KGB.
R. Kubilius, a former internal affairs system official, made no secret that he had contacted D. Gaižauskas even after his election to Seimas in 2016, but that “not much came out of that.”
“According to his logic, if Gaižauskas were told that I, as his chief in Calvary police, had once worked in Soviet security until then, then he should also be told that he was taught by Soviet teachers or that he was born” to a Russian “- why such a fact in the biography of the president of the Seimas NSGK does not have to be important when considering whether permission should be given to work with confidential information,” said R. Kubilius.
According to the interlocutor, “the situation in the SSD itself has changed since the time that Jurgelis or Laurinkus headed the department (former SSD chiefs Jurgis Jurgelis and Mečislovas Laurinkus – aut. Past).”
“Security in Lithuania has been governed by the military for some time, I think the security structure model is similar to that of the United States, and many of the previous regulations are being modified to take account of new geopolitical challenges and problems “said R. Kubilius.
Meanwhile, D. Gaižauskas himself asked the question whether the SSD had indicated this fact, saying that “Kubilius’ previous activities are not related to my work in parliament”.
Even after listening several times, the politician said he did not understand what his old service in the Lithuanian police had to do with working at the Seimas, and why “someone would care about such a distant past,” especially according to D himself. Gaižauskas, “Kubilius himself has confessed and received a work permit … already in the police”.
However, even “publicly known information”, in accordance with the provisions of the State and Official Secrets Act, must be properly processed in cases where a person requests permission to work with classified information.
Conservative Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Vice President of the Seimas NSGK, states that the questionnaire mentioned above, in which the information provided by the speaker is evaluated and verified by the SSD, even contains a separate topic on relations with people who have worked or cooperated with Soviet or other intelligence services and / or intelligence institutions. .
“Yes, there is a separate question that ambiguously asks about the presence / absence of such links,” the MP told Delfi.
He did not disclose the information provided by the president.
D. Gaižauskas indicated this circumstance when presenting the questionnaire to obtain the permit, and the SSD did not respond either.
His representative Aurelija Katkuvienė stated that such information is not public, and the department, in response to the letter from the President of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis on the permission of D. Gaižauskas to work with confidential information, recommended granting such permission.
The President of the Seimas himself, through the representatives of his office, did not respond if he was (was) aware of such fact of the biography of D. Gaižauskas, as well as if this information was indicated in the questionnaire completed by the parliamentarian.
“According to Article 44 (7) of the Seimas Statute,” Seimas members who have a work permit or have access to classified information may be members of the NSGK. “D. Gaižauskas, like other members of NSGK, completed the questionnaire, the SSD carried out an inspection and recommended to issue a permit to work with classified information. D. Gaižauskas has been a member of NSGK since the beginning of the Seimas mandate. The SSD verifies the data provided in the questionnaire “, is written in the response sent by V. Pranckietis’s office.
It turned out during investigations in parliament and the SSD
Delfi contacted when Gaižauskas had worked in the Lithuanian police with a former Soviet KGB staff officer for a long time before engaging in politics, possibly concealing him by filling out a questionnaire to obtain permission to work with classified information, when members of the coalition Polish ruling coalition peaked in the Seimas. – Investigation of the activities of Irina Rozova, representative of the Union of Christian Families.
Mr. Gaižauskas directed the activities of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission, which investigated I. Rozova’s hidden relations with intelligence officers of the Russian Federation working under diplomatic cover in the Republic of Lithuania.
In September last year, the Seimas issued a resolution directing the NSGC to conduct a parliamentary investigation to discover not only Russia’s influence on Seimas member I. Rozova, but also whether the Seimas had adequately responded to the Classified information provided by the SSD on possible threats to national security. the information was not manipulated for political purposes to influence political processes in the country.
Delfi recalls that the information about I. Rozova’s relations emerged after the formation of a new ruling coalition in the Seimas in 2019 and two of the ministerial posts were assigned to the “Polish” faction, which joined the “peasants” and ruling social workers. Rozova.
In parallel with the NSGC parliamentary inquiry, another scandal arose over the possible manipulation of classified information.
In the spring of this year, it became clear that then-NSGK President V.Bakas was approached by a senior SSD official in 2019, who reported on possible verbal information about the then-candidate’s environment for the presidential election, Gitan Nausėda, and future team members.
D. Gaižauskas accused V. Bakas that after the information was leaked to the public, the identity of the SSD employee who provided the information was revealed. However, no last name was mentioned anywhere in the public.
D. Gaižauskas also accused V. Bakas of concealing the rapporteur’s information from committee members, and seeks to deprive the former NSGK president of the right to work with confidential information on that basis.
NSGK, headed by D. Gaižauskas, has already filed a request with the President of Seimas V. Pranckietis, but the latter stated that he would not be in a hurry to request a recommendation from the SSD and await the results of the investigation into whether the employee’s information from the SSD was revealed in the media.
Delfi asked the Office of the President of the Seimas for a comment on whether D. Gaižauskas referred to a former KGB officer R. Kubilius in his questionnaire, when the investigation into I. Rozova had not yet been completed, and the NSGK headed by D. Gaižauskas solved one of the problems. The role of the Franciscan in the concealment of information about I. Rozovas.
A couple of weeks ago, the Seimas rejected NSGK’s request to extend the deadline for the investigation, and the results of the parliamentary investigation, which had been in force for more than half a year, were not systematized and voted on by the Seimas. There was a shortage of votes when the opposition did not agree with the direction of the investigation by D. Gaižauskas: to recognize the representatives of the opposition committee and V. Bakas guilty of possible manipulation of classified information.
Last week, Seimas also rejected the initiation of an impeachment process against Seimas member I. Rozova for breaking the oath. Sufficient data is alleged to have been collected during the parliamentary investigation into the NSGC, the conservatives who launched the investigation said.
He worked with a former KGB employee for more than a decade.
According to the official biography of D. Gaižauskas, a member of Seimas, who started working in the Lithuanian police in 1996, began working in 1998 as an inspector of the Criminal Associations Control Branch of the Organized Crime Investigation Service of the Marijampol Area Área of the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior.
It was this division headed by R. Kubilius, the former captain of the Marijampolė KGB Board of the Lithuanian SSR. The latter’s biography includes twelve years of experience in the KGB, including two studies at the then KGB High School in Moscow and a career as a lieutenant in the district of Captain Kapsukas (later Marijampolmp) on the KGB Board.
R. Kubilius received the rank of captain of the KGB already after the Restoration of the Independence of Lithuania on July 4, 1990.
R. Kubilius was released from active service on the KGB Marijampolė board only on April 26, 1991, when Lithuania was already the second year of restored independence.
R. Kubilius’ service to the KGB was accompanied by thanks and awards for his impeccable service. The last award was in 1988, for 10 years of impeccable service.
Information on this is in the special files of Lithuania and Delfi has seen these documents.
When asked how he moved from Soviet security to the restored Lithuanian internal affairs system, R. Kubilius made no secret from Delfi that former colleagues in the Soviet internal affairs system who had moved to Lithuania were invited to work in the customs system Lithuanian.
The man worked for several years at the then Lazdijai border post, according to him, in “smuggling prevention”.
The interlocutor stated that he had “gone through all the frustration of the courts himself”, after which he was allowed to move up the career ladder already in the Lithuanian internal affairs system.
“I was invited by the then Minister Petras Valiukas; initially I worked as a police officer, then I appointed an organized crime investigation unit in Marijampolė, I directed it,” R. Kubilius himself recalled his career and his relationship with D. Gaižauskas.
He made no secret of the fact that when he was offered the position of chief of the Kalvarija Police Station in 2001, he invited D. Gaižauskas, who had worked with him in Marijampolė, as his assistant.
The men worked together in an office, in the newly established Kalvarija Police Station, until 2011, when R. Kubilius retired, leaving D. Gaižauskas’ presidency as chief.
“He was a fighter, I liked that he worked with fire, which worked well”, R. Kubilius, a former subordinate of D. Gaižauskas after many years, did not skimp.
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