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COEC spokeswoman Eglė Ivanauskaitė informed BNS that the commission had decided on Wednesday to request additional information from Interior and Transport Ministers Rita Tamašunienė and Jaroslav Narkevičius.
Additional information will also be requested from Vilnius District Mayor Marija Rekst, Administrative Director Liucinas Kotlovskas and Elder Zujūnai Miroslav Gajevskis.
According to E.Ivanauskaitė, based on the additional information received, it will be decided whether to renew the study.
“On this basis, the commission will decide if there is a legal basis to reopen the investigation, since this is the request received,” said a COEC spokeswoman.
Agnė Bilotaitė, Deputy Elder of the Group of Conservatives of the Seimas Opposition, addressed the COEC last week to request the resumption of the investigation when new circumstances were clarified.
The prime minister himself has denied any influence on the government’s decision, but it is now clear that his wife, as well as influential politicians in the ruling coalition, the Polish Electoral Action Christian Union, have been involved in the process to speed up the paving of roads. the Minister of the Interior herself. I think this is a sufficient basis to renew the investigation for a possible conflict of interest ”, said A. Bilotaitė.
Last week, the prime minister’s wife, Silvija Skvernelė, asked the Upės Street community in the Vilnius district to vote for Interior Minister R.Tamašunienė in a closed Facebook group for his efforts to pave the road.
A copy of the record of the prime minister’s spouse was spread on social media.
Tomas Beržinskas, spokesman for Prime Minister S. Skvernelis, did not deny the authenticity of the recording and called it a personal statement.
As can be seen from the copy of the minutes, S. Skvernelė asked to vote for R. Tamašunienė in the single-member constituency, because “this is a person who constantly reminded the employees of the Vilnius district municipality of the problems on our road.
S. Skvernelis was criticized by the opposition when a section of Upės Street leading to his house was paved with money allocated by the Government.
The COEC announced in June this year that it had no data to suggest that the prime minister might have confused public and private interests because government documents did not mention a specific street.
S. Skvernelis always claimed that he did not influence the decision of the Vilnius District Municipality to allocate the funds for the paving of Upės Street.
R.Tamašunienė was elected in the single-member electoral district of Nemenčinė, she is still running there.
Last week, the minister explained that she had been aware of the asphalt problem on Upės Street for eight years and said that she had not contacted the prime minister or his wife, but spoke with the Vilnius district municipality and administration. of roads.
At the time, Vitalijus Andrejevas, former head of the Lithuanian Highway Administration, stated that the minister had not discussed it with the Directorate.
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