DATE:
06/09/2006
Former President of Lithuania Rolandas Paksas is going to bring an action in connection with the publication by the magazine Ekstra that he regards as a part of , organized against him, online-newspaper Penki kontinentai writes In an article published
on September 4 his name is mentioned in the connection with the death in Brest, Belarus, of Vytautas Pociunas, a staff member of the State Security Department of Lithuania.
A statement publicised on the online-site of the political party lead by Paksa's it is said that he also has sent a letter to the General Public Prosecutor of Lithuania, Algimantas Valantinas, asking to pay a special attention to the case of Pociunas and to give the society a clear report on the circumstances of the tragedy. In the mentioned article on the transfer of Pociunas from his high-ranking Security Department post to the diplomatic service job in the Lithuanian consulate in Grodno, the magazine pays attention to the fact that this very intelligence officer was heading the team that had gathered information on
Lithuanian Foreign Minister defends his staff member accused of ties with Russian secret services
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Petras Vaitekunas has taken under his protection the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Albinas Januska who has been accused by the mass media almost in complicity to Russian secret services, online-paper Penki kontinentai reports. In particular, Januska allegedly had together with the Deputy Director of the Security Department of Lithuania Darius Jurgeliavicius promoted the sending to "an exile" to Belarus of the security service officer Vytautas Pociunas.
According to the magazine Ekstra, Pociunas
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http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1056
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