Longtime Riga Freeport chief executive officer Leonids Loginovs holds several ten thousands of euros in cash, owns an impressive car fleet and has received several large donations, Latvian Television's De Facto reported Sunday. Strikingly, he also appears to have inherited a Maybach luxury car from his father.
Latvia requires firms to obtain a permit to be registered at a particular address, a requirement for setting up an official company. Cases of possible fraud have been on the increase, with one address reportedly hosting a whopping 596 companies. The Justice Ministry is eyeing solutions to the problem, reported Latvian Television's De Facto Sunday.
The Forge of Happiness (Latvian - Laimes kalve) society, which has ties to the Scientology movement, has held lectures in several Latvian schools, Latvian Television's investigative journalism team De Facto reported Sunday. Representatives of the movement have lectured children as young as ten, and say about 2,000 pupils have heard them across Latvia.
Stopping the development of the existing pathology labs to create a new one with the help of a pharmacy giant - such a scenario may play out if Roche, the third-largest pharma company in the world, will gift Latvia with medical equipment worth millions of euros. This has been made possible by Health Minister Guntis Belēvičs' visit to Roche's headquarters in Switzerland, Latvian Television's De Facto reported Sunday.
The so-called Latvian Human Rights Committee, connected to pro-Russian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka, received about €95,000 from the Fund for the Legal Protection and Support of Russian Federation Compatriots Living Abroad last year, reported Latvian Television LTV’s investigative news program De facto Sunday.
Since the launch of the liquefied natural gas terminal in Klaipeda, gas from Lithuania can now technically be supplied to Latvia, however the Latvian gas utility Latvijas Gaze has put up new rules which limit gas supplies while precluding consumers in Latvia from using gas from Lithuania, Latvian Public Television (LTV) investigative news program De facto reported Sunday.
The citizen of Latvia who was reported to have been killed while fighting for Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine is likely to have made the contacts which led him to join the fight there while serving time in Russian prison years ago, reported Olga Dragileva of Latvian Public Television (LTV) investigative news program De Facto Sunday.