Thirteen millionaires among lawmakers in Lithuania

VILNIUS - Thirteen politicians whose family wealth exceeds one million euros are working in the new Seimas, with Dainoras Bradauskas of the Nemunas Dawn party being the richest, according to the latest asset and income declarations published by the State Tax Inspectorate on Tuesday.

Bradauskas, a former head of the tax watchdog, has declared that he and his wife had assets and income worth 3.4 million euros last year. Most of them include real estate and shares worth 1.2 million euros.

Liberal MP Arminas Lydeka comes in second. He and his wife reported owning almost 2.4 million euros worth of property, mainly of apartments and funds in the bank.

Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, completes the TOP 3 as he and his wife have declared assets and cash worth almost 2.3 million euros. More than half of this amount - 1.75 million euros - is the value of the shares they own.

In addition, the prime minister and his wife have outstanding debts of around 260,000 euros.

The families of Social Democrat Culture Minister Sarunas Birutis, Arteras Zuukas, the leader of the Center-Right Union and a member of the non-attached group, and Ignas Vegele, a former lawyer, also have assets worth more than 2 million euros.

Remigijus Zemaitaitis, leader of the Nemunas Dawn party, part of the ruling bloc, and his wife have declared assets worth 1.4 million euros, including apartments, houses, plots of land, shares, works of art and jewelry.

2024 was a financially successful year for the Zemaitaitis as his family managed to increase their assets by almost half a million euros.

Other millionaires include former MEP Bronis Rope (1.2 million euros), liberal Edita Rudeliene (1.19 million euros), Valius Azuolas (1.1 million euros), Kazys Starkevicius of the opposition conservative Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats (1.07 million euros), liberal Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen (1.05 million euros) and HU-LCD MP Dainius Kreivys (1 million euros).

Politicians' asset and income declarations are public.