VILNIUS- The LithuanianSeimas ruled on Dec. 9 to remove the legal immunity of three Members of Parliament. Labor Party Chairman Viktor Uspaskich, his former deputy Vytautas Gapsys and Rokas Zilinskas of the National Resurrection Party have been named.
The Seimas decided to approve trial proceedings of all three MPs despite the parliamentary commissions initially proposed plan to remove legal immunity of just Viktor Uspaskich. A resolution can be passed with the vote of over half of all MPs, or 71 out of 141.
Prosecutor General Algimantas Valantinas addressed the Seimas in Nov. asking it to remove the legal immunity of three MPs. The Seimas is the only institution capable of stripping a Member of Parliament of legal immunity.
Prosecutors have accused Labor Party Chairman Viktor Uspaskich, the party's former executive secretary Vytautas Gapsys, and two other individuals of fraudulent bookkeeping, registering erroneous figures in Labor Party books, pasting them onto declarations and presenting them to authority institutions, false submissions regarding party-owned capital to state institutions amid receiving state allocations, causing considerable damage to the state.
The Labor Party is suspected of concealing more than 24 million litas (7 mln euro) in income and about 23 million litas in spending, as well as evasion of approximately 4 million litas in taxes.
Former journalist Zilinskas is charged with a violation of public order, insulting and resisting seven police officers. He is facing up to three years in prisons for the charges.
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