In connection with the development and operation of IT systems in the 2025 municipal elections, law enforcement authorities this evening carried out procedural actions at the Ministry of Environmental Protection state secretary Edvīns Balševics, according to information available to Inc.
Procedural actions are also reportedly being conducted at the former head of the State Regional Development Agency (VRAA) Jorens Liopa, as well as at the entrepreneur and Corporate Solutions group owner Aigars Ceruss.
Asked what connection the entrepreneur Ceruss has with the election IT system procurement, an Inc. source stated: “This entrepreneur has a practice of registering companies in the names of his employees, thereby creating artificial competition, although in fact the company “Baltic Software factory”, which was one of the three developers of the new system, is a company linked to Ceruss.” He added that companies associated with and controlled by Ceruss have developed both the Prosecutor’s Office information system together with ZZ Dats, and the E-Case system, as well as E-Health.
Balševics, for his part, was precisely the one who “arranged for his friend and former colleague at the Court Administration to become the head of VDAA,” says the Inc. source. Declarations of State Revenue Service officials show that Balševics and Liopa worked at the Court Administration at the same time at least from 2011 to 2019.
The Inc. source reports that “with a very high probability” a search also took place at the company “Ernst & Young Baltics”, which developed the technical specification.
Entrepreneur Aigars Ceruss’s mobile phone is switched off this evening and cannot be reached, while the mobile phone of the Ministry of Environmental Protection state secretary Balševics does not answer.
Inc. will continue to follow the development of the situation; this report is being updated.
Originally published at https://inc-baltics.com/pie-varam-valsts-sekretara-balsevica-liopas-un-uznemeja-ceruss-tiekot-veiktas-operativas-darbibas/
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