“It seems very unfortunate when a person is unable to answer a single question without insults, insults. We really didn’t start the whole story of the villa, farmhouse, or bunker, he started it himself, hiding information, not providing it,” A. Širinskienė told Elta on Tuesday.
“Today, the exact same show was extended. Again, there are no elementary answers to the questions,” she regretted.
A. Širinskienė noted that she asked G. Landsbergis in the Seimas hall whether his family had paid the relevant real estate taxes. The politician assured her that he had paid “as much as the law requires”, but did not disclose the specific amounts.
“I asked about the possible property taxes paid, because they are also paid at the time of purchase, they show basically the amount that was paid for the transaction. There is no answer. What is Mr. Landsbergis afraid of, if he really paid those taxes, as he declares?” she asked rhetorically.
“The further we go into the forest, the more those questions seem to arise,” admitted the opposition member.
A. Širinskienė informed that she intends to contact the law enforcement, so that they would help answer the remaining questions regarding the acquisitions of the G. Landsbergis family.
“I plan to prepare a letter to the prosecutor’s office with very clear questions – are there any signs of money laundering, signs of illegal enrichment,” confirmed the member of the Seimas.
Rasa Budbergytė, an elder of the opposition Social Democratic faction, seconded her colleague – no answers were received from the minister in the Seimas hall.
“I didn’t hear the answers, because the minister’s attitude, behavior, rhetoric, emotion were so insulted and reeked of grievances, apparently because of not getting the post of European Commissioner… Everything was said with such disrespect that I didn’t really hear a sincere answer (…). Everything was hidden under very bad rhetoric, emotion and arrogant attitude,” R. Budbergytė shared her assessment.
She also rejected G. Landsberg’s accusations that the opposition was organizing a “political show”.
“The opposition does not demonstrate any political shows,” said the social democrat, referring to G. Landsbergi’s remark heard in the Seimas hall.
“He turned the carousel when he did not receive an answer to the question of his colleague Aurelijus Veryga, which he asked the fellow minister. This is who is the initiator of this political show – Gabrielius Landsbergis”, she emphasized, adding that if the minister had answered the questions raised in time, “there would not be any political show”.
On Tuesday, Minister G. Landsbergis answered the questions of the opposition regarding the villa purchased by his family on the Greek island from the rostrum of the plenary session hall of the Seimas. The politician testified that the insinuations and accusations made by the Seimas minority are “demagogically manipulative”.
“The insinuations and accusations in the questions are completely wrong, unfounded and incorrect and demagogically manipulative,” said G. Landsbergis from the rostrum of the parliamentary plenary session hall, answering the questions of the Seimas minority.
ELTA reminds that “Lietuvos rytas” reported that the family of G. Landsbergis purchased a luxurious villa on the Greek island of Aegina. According to the newspaper, the plot with the buildings is registered in the name of Austėja Landsbergienė, the wife of the minister. As the publication announced, A. Landsbergienė paid 255 thousand for this real estate back in February 2022. euro advance. After the publication appeared, questions arose in the public sphere due to the fact that the month of the purchase of the plot coincides with the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A. Landsbergienė’s property declarations for 2022 and 2023 show 795 thousand. EUR real estate abroad.
2024-09-10 21:53:38