Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office has temporarily restricted the property rights of Agnė Šilickienė, a former aide to ex-Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, as part of a corruption investigation involving the State Plant Service.
The restrictions, in place since December 2025, are recorded in Lithuania’s Real Estate Register. Prosecutors have frozen multiple properties linked to Šilickienė, including a land plot in Užkrižiai in Elektrėnai municipality co-owned with her husband, Saulius Šilickas, as well as a house, apartment and garage in Vilnius. A separate land plot in Marijampolė belonging to Šilickienė has also been seized.
Šilickienė is among 14 individuals charged in a pretrial investigation into alleged corruption at the State Plant Service. The suspects include the agency’s former head, Jurijus Kornijenko.
Prosecutors suspect Šilickienė of participating in an organised criminal group, accepting bribes and acting as an intermediary in transferring illicit payments to Skvernelis.
Last week, Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė asked parliament to strip Skvernelis of his legal immunity to allow formal charges to be brought against him. The request alleges that he accepted at least 51,000 euros in cash bribes on multiple occasions in exchange for political favours related to the operations of the State Plant Service.
According to investigators, large bribes were systematically demanded and accepted from companies transporting plants and plant products in exchange for phytosanitary certificates issued by the agency.
Earlier searches in the case uncovered 1.3 million euros in cash, about 8 kilograms of gold valued at roughly 1 million euros, as well as explosives and cocaine, authorities said.
Newsletter
Every Friday morning.
