RIGA - Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis has organized a commission to investigate actions by the chief of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) in punishing an officer.
The newspaper Latvijas Vestnesis published a decree by the PM today. In the text, Kalvitis states that a five-member investigation commission should be formed to probe the disciplinary action that KNAB chief Aleksejs Loskutovs took against Investigation Department head Ilmars Bode.
Andris Brekis, head of the Cabinet of Ministers Information Analysis Department, was appointed as chairman of the commission. Representatives of the justice and interior ministries and the State Civil Service will also join the investigation.
After Kalvitis criticized Loskutovs for his decision, the KNAB chief turned to the Prosecutor General's Office, asking for an investigation into the PM's actions.
Loskutovs said Kalvitis had violated the law, which says that the dispute can only be handled by the court.
