It is not the first time the presidential candidate has been accused of cooperating with the KGB.
Prunskiene is chairwoman of the Peasant Popular Union. She is also a former agriculture minister and was prime minister of the first Cabinet after Lithuaniareestablished its independence.
The commission said it will also turn to the Prosecutor General's Office regarding the activity of former Vilniusdistrict court judge MP Konstantas Ramelis and judge Giedrius Baziulis.
"Judging from the case investigation, we find this process wasn't exactly clean," Lustration Commission Chairman Algimantas Urmanas told the press.
The commission has been investigating the Lithuania's Liberation Movement Council's request to consider new facts regarding Prunskiene's collaboration with the KGB and defend public interest and justice in terms of national security.
"The KGB branch at the Soviet Republic of Lithuania maintained contact with Prunskiene, who would render scientific information accumulated in the People's Republics of Hungary and Germanyand the Federal Republic of Germany," data available to the Lustration Commission reads.
Prunskiene had the status of agent of influence, with such agents not required to sign a cooperation agreement.
"Information communicated by her was first coded with three letters and later with Satrijos Ragana[…] When an agent went on to a certain level in the Soviet party nomenclature, their case would immediately be destroyed," the data reads.
After re-investigating the case, a Vilnius District Court ruled in the spring of 2003 that there is a lack of evidence to suggest Prunskiene's conscious secret collaboration with the KGB.
This ruling replaced that of Sept. 14 of 1992 the Civil Case Division under Lithuania's Supreme Court, which said Prunskiene had consciously collaborated with the KGB.
Prunskiene herself denies affiliation with Soviet secret services.
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