Riga Regional Court, in the so-called criminal case of Aivars Lembergs, has removed the lawyer Rudolf Meroni from the storage of the property arrested in criminal proceedings, according to Latvian Television information published August 17.
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On Saturday, June 13, one of the largest law enforcement searches in Latvia's history took place in ABLV Bank-related addresses, Latvian Television reported on June 13.
After PNB banka folded in mid-August, its administrator has asked former clients to submit pay-out requests within three months. Rīga's municipal housing manager, Rīgas namu pārvaldnieks (RNP), is among these clients and there are questions whether €6m worth of homeowners' money deposited with the company will be returned, reported LTV's De facto September 22.
A couple of years ago, former anti-graft official and current New Conservative Party MP Juris Jurašs announced that he'd been offered a €1m bribe to use his influence for helping Estonian millionaire Oleg Ossinovski achieve a favorable result in court.
Latvia's Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) started the Rīgas satiksme graft case over bribery involving Polish and Czech companies as well as officials inside the municipal company and the Rīga City Council, KNAB told the press December 13.
One person has admitted to being guilty in a case in which about €150,000 was defrauded from the Riga housing management company Rīgas Namu Pārvaldnieks (RNP) through fake job contracts, reported LTV's De facto.
Aigars Lūsis, a former parliamentary secretary at Justice Ministry, is accused of abetting embezzlement, reported LTV's De Facto March 11.
Unity, one of Latvia's ruling parties, has been stripped of public funding by Latvia's anti-graft squad, the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB). This follows a court verdict over party financing violations prior to the previous parliamentary election, reported Ivo Leitāns Wednesday.
Latvia's anti-corruption agency, the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) was at the center of further bizarre goings-on Tuesday.
Anatolijs Abramovs, head of the Rīga Municipal company "Rīgas Centrāltirgus" (RCT), has been accused of possible bribe taking, reported Latvian Television Wednesday.
Last week the government greenlighted the Ldz Ritošā Sastāva Serviss, a Latvian Railways subsidiary, to buy the Rīgas Vagonbūves Uzņēmums Baltija (RVU Baltija) company for building freight cars in Daugavpils. Previously, however, the company's private investors were unable to start production, while the demand for freight cars is currently low, reported Latvian Television's "De Facto" Sunday.
One of Latvia's leading banks faces the prospect of being charged by French prosecutors over its alleged role in a huge tax-avoidance scam.
An report by Latvian TV's De Facto investigative news program Sunday night attempted to uncover the activities in Riga of Mossack Fonseca - the controversial offshore specialists at the center of the so-called 'Panama Papers' scandal.
On Monday, after receiving letters of complaint from several regional branches of the party, the Unity board tasked the party's Ethics committee with deciding whether MPs Ilze Viņķele and Lolita Čigāne should be expelled from the party, reported Latvian Radio.
The Cesis Regional Court Wednesday sentenced four vote buying suspects to community service and fines over buying votes for Unity candidate Viktors Zaķis in the Saeima 12th election, Latvian Radio reported Thursday.
Aija Dulevska on Monday was voted to become the head of the National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP). Previously she was the acting chairwoman of the council, reported Latvian Radio's Ivo Leitāns.
The Administrative Regional Court ruled against the Saeima decision to sack Ainārs Dimants, former head of the National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP), reported LSM's Latvian-language service Wednesday.
Over the weekend, a story spread over social networks about an alleged mugging in the Mucenieki asylum seeker center. The police hadn't reacted to it, the story went on, presumably as the culprits were believed to be asylum seekers at the center. Latvian Radio on Monday traced the spurious story's roots to an anonymous comment on a news piece, but not before it was shared by several officials.
The court sentence has come into effect in one of the vote buying schemes, finding Jevgenijs Brovcenko guilty for vote buying, so the Central Election Committee (CVK) will have to evaluate whether the mandates will have to be re-divided among MP candidates, Latvian Radio reported Tuesday.
The Riga Vidzeme District Court on Thursday decided to release Uģis Magonis, the former head of Latvian national rail company Latvijas Dzelzceļš (LDz) on a bail of €400,000 if he posts the bail within a month, reported LETA newswire.
'My Rīga - free from hatred!' is the name of the tolerance campaign by the Dia+Logs center. The posters of the campaign, co-financed by the Rīga City Council, were removed from the streets of the capital in a move that the council says was sparked by locals' complaints about the alleged promotion of same-sex marriage, reported Latvian Radio on Tuesday.
The National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) board, which is a member short since former chairman Ainārs Dimants was sacked, voted to make deputy chairman Aija Dulevska the interim chairman, reported the LSM Latvian news portal on Thursday.
The third vote-buying case for "Vienotība" (Unity) candidate Dzintars Zaķis has gone to court, reports Latvian Radio. An ex-MP is among those accused for buying votes in the Vidzeme district and transporting voters to Latgale. The case is being handled by Madona district court and has seen two judges stand down from the case as they know the defendant, so it is likely to be sent to another court.
Behind closed doors, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided that Latvia will accept 250 refugees in the course of two years.
The Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) has found violations in the pre-election spending of several political parties for the 12th Saeima elections, reported Ivo Leitāns, a correspondent of Latvian Radio.
Russian Railways' holding company, RZD Logistics, has acquired a 50% stake in Latvian rail carrier Liepājas naftas tranzīts (Liepāja oil transit, LNT) via its wholly-owned subsidiary RZDL Multimodal BV, LSM's Ivo Leitans reported Thursday, citing information from Russian state-owned news agency TASS.
Jewish religious objects have been among the targets of terrorist attacks for many years now, the Security Police acknowledged after the Islamic terror acts in the Danish capital last week. The list of targets that have recently been attacked now includes a synagogue in Copenhagen, a kosher food store in Paris, last year it was the Jewish Museum in Brussels.