Last year, SEB Bankas and Swedbank paid slightly more than 3,000 litas (EUR 869.5) in profit tax combined. As a result, the State Tax Inspectorate launched a probe into the flow of money between those banks and their founding companies.
Sources told the daily that Latvienė had asked the officers of a certain department of the tax authority to notify her about the process of the probe. Also, she reportedly took the materials of the probe, which had not yet been completed. Unofficial sources said that Nerijus Udrėnas, chief adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, was much interested in those materials as well.
“It’s totally untrue. We were only asking for the tax authority’s conclusions required for improvements in the legislative base, which are related with this probe. The probe falls within their remit. The tax authority was only asked to submit proposals if it were to find out any legislative provisions that should be amended. That’s exactly what it has done,” Latvienė said.
