What Happened to the Deputy Minister of the Environment: Did žUromskas Remove the Person Proposed by Ruginienė?

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Environment Minister Kastytis Žuromskas dismissed Edmundas Mačiežas, the vice minister responsible for forest policy, after he complained that he had been removed from many forest policy-related matters at the Ministry of Environment. The minister explained that this was not true, and that the vice minister had lost political trust.

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The Seimas Anti-Corruption Commission will investigate possible corruption in the Ministry of Environment on Monday, after its head Kastytis Žuromskas stated that the dismissed Vice Minister Edmundas Mačieža could have been bribed or influenced by interest groups that oppose restrictions on deforestation. K. Žuromskas himself, as well as representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Special Investigation Service (STT), are invited …