2024-06-05 19:39:50
Siliņš admitted in an interview on Latvian Tv’s “Morning Panorama” program that Lazdiņš turning into the pinnacle of the LOK was “actually a shock”.
He was stunned that the sports activities union did not agree on a youthful, extra transparency-oriented, sports-related candidate.
In Silina’s view, individuals who resolve on sports activities ought to change, rework, as society calls for. “It’ll solely elevate extra questions that we’d not like to speak about, as a substitute of speaking concerning the athletes’ achievements,” stated Siliņa, nevertheless, the prime minister didn’t make clear this concept additional.
As reported, Lazdiņš was elected president of the group on the LOK Common Meeting on Tuesday. Vice President of the Latvian Handball Federation (LHF), Lazdiņš, who was already supported by 16 sports activities federations throughout his nomination, obtained 61 out of 107 votes within the first spherical of voting.
Lazdiņš works beneath the management of the political get together “Platforma 21”, however after being elected because the president of LOK, he has promised to go away the place of vice chairman of LHF and to not proceed working within the political get together. “Platforma 21” is the remnants of Alda Gobzem’s get together “Legislation and Order”, which later became “Katram und katrai”. This get together was not capable of enter the 14th Saeima, however gained sufficient voter help to obtain state funding, which for this political drive is lower than 190,000 euros per yr.
From 2023, Lazdiņš was the vice-president of the LHF, in addition to a member of the LOK Govt Committee. Earlier than working within the sports activities trade, he labored at JSC Gaso as the pinnacle of the Fuel Provide Security Division from November 2017 to December 2023, and earlier than that he was the pinnacle of the Analytics and Danger Prevention Division of the Operational and Technical Division of JSC Latvijas gāze.
Lazdiņš’s title as soon as figured within the so-called Riga Airport wiretapping case. The eavesdropping turned public data in 2013, when the airport board decided to droop the pinnacle of the airport’s Safety Division, former safety advisor to Prime Minister Aigars Kalvīš, Lazdiņš, and two of his subordinates, because the State Safety Service (VDD) had began prison proceedings in reference to the revealed info. At the moment, three airport staff have been accused of utilizing technical means to spy on all airport board members and staff, together with heads of all departments, businessmen and even legislation enforcement officers who work on the airport.
In the summertime of 2015, the VDD requested the Riga District Prosecutor’s Workplace to provoke prison prosecution in opposition to 11 airport officers and staff on the time in reference to unauthorized wiretapping of phone conversations on the airport. The prosecutor’s workplace terminated the prison proceedings in opposition to Lazdiņa, the previous head of the airport’s Safety Division.
2024-06-05 19:39:50