G. Nausėda about the possibility of testifying at the VSD reporter’s commission: everything has already been answered

This is what he said when asked if he would testify there if invited.

“Everything has already been answered for this commission. I have nothing more to say to them, the head of the country told reporters in Vilnius on Thursday. “There is nothing more to testify or answer for.”

The temporary commission of the Seimas is investigating the reporter’s story regarding the actions of VSD leaders in checking the environment of the president in the previous elections.

G. Nausėda also said in an interview with LNK on Wednesday that this commission is “just as illegal” because its head Vytautas Bakas does not have the authority to work with classified information.

At that time, V. Bakas told BNS that he has the right to work with restricted information, which is enough for the commission to explain possible violations.

The initiative to create the commission arose after the prosecutor’s office stated in the spring of this year that the intelligence officer’s report to the then chairman of the National Security and Defense Committee (NSDK) about the actions of the VSD leadership, submitted four years ago, was improperly examined.

The material submitted by the speaker was examined in the Seimas in the previous term. In 2019, a VSD official appealed to the then chairman of the Seimas NSGK, V. Bakas, complaining to his managers about possible illegal activities.

This story is described in the book “The Speaker and the President” by investigative journalists Dovydas Pancerov and Birutė Davidonytė.

The former official claimed to journalists that in July 2018, he received several sheets with many names and a verbal order “to check the election team and the list of possible supporters of one candidate” from the deputy director of the department, Remigijaus Bridikis. As it turned out, the supporters and associates of the then presidential candidate G. Nausėda were specified in it.

The NSGK of the Seimas, which then examined the situation, stated that the VSD acted legally by checking the environment of the presidential candidates, but called on them to refuse verbal orders in such situations.

VSD representatives claimed to have checked the teams of all presidential candidates, the reporter himself assured that only G. Nausėda’s surroundings were checked, and R. Bridikis confirmed to him that the lists were received from G. Nausėda himself. The president categorically denies that he asked the VSD to check his team.