Thursday, April 16, 2026

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“Stiga RM” new employees could have conflicts of interest; a loophole in the law allows the Anti-Corruption Bureau not to assess and not to establish them

At the beginning of this year, longtime deputy director for wood product sales at AS Latvijas Valsts meži (LVM), Andris Meirāns, changed jobs. Mr. Meirāns held a responsible position: he developed auction and pricing rules and regulations, effectively determining what, to whom, for how much, and under what conditions LVM would sell and deliver timber. For this responsible work Mr. Meirāns was accordingly […]

How to properly arrange gifts to obtain the blessing of the Anti-Corruption Bureau? A brief guide for lovers of “gratitude.”

Once the president of a country’s central bank went on a hunting trip to Kamchatka and later stated in court that the photograph in which he is sitting in what was then a highly respectable company had been doctored. He could have avoided these troubles with the photographs, prison, and legal expenses if only… he had arranged this trip as a business visit. This, by analogy, can be inferred from a certain Inc. […]

3 things Delfi doesn’t tell you…

At the time when I worked at the Ministry of Economics and saw how politicians acted and then publicly said something completely different, deliberately distorting information, sometimes the level of manipulation was such that I could not even believe it was possible at all. I tried to understand whether a particular person did this out of conviction, defending certain interests, or really did not understand […]

In the VDAA competition for the development of an election platform, Emergn and RIX Technologies have been invited to participate

In the State Digital Development Agency’s (VDAA) tender for the development or adaptation of an election platform for the Saeima elections, the companies AS Emergn and AS RIX Technologies have applied to participate in the restricted procedure, according to information in the Electronic Procurement System (EIS). In a restricted tender, anyone interested may apply, but the contracting authority itself chooses which companies to invite to submit bids. Information on the VDAA website shows that, according to the agency’s estimates […]

Owners of the military industry are not being anonymized yet: The government’s decision took 17 months

After 17 months of bureaucratic activity, the Cabinet of Ministers has criticized and rejected the initiative of the Saeima Defence, Internal Affairs and Corruption Prevention Committee to anonymize the board members and beneficial owners of the Ministry of Defence’s strategic partners, yet has not offered its own solution for their protection. The head of the responsible committee, Raimonds Bergmanis, believes that entrepreneurs in the military industry who have concluded supply contracts with the Ministry of Defence […]

Due to the Riga City Council, children in Riga schools may be left without lunch

For several months now, the Riga City Council has been delaying the signing of contracts with the companies that won the right in the spring lottery to provide catering for children in 25 Riga schools. Meanwhile, the previous caterers, who were less fortunate in the 53-million-euro draw, are refusing to vacate the premises of the school canteens, the winning companies report. There are three weeks left until the start of the school year and the first food portions – for the companies that […]