"Venckienė was summoned to a prosecutor's office today (Wednesday – BNS) but did not show up. Officers failed to find her and were not able to hand in a subpoena. Now we'll try to locate her," Martynas Povilaitis of Šiauliai Regional Prosecutor's Office, in northern Lithuania, told BNS, adding that no official search for Venckienė has been announced yet.
Venckienė has not been seen in the Seimas since April 9, when parliament voted to grant Prosecutor General's request to revoke Venckienė's legal immunity.
Venckienė is suspected of defying a court ruling - when ordered to hand over her niece, who was in her care, to her mother - as well as of resistance to police officers.
Prosecutors want to bring suspicions against Venckienė on six counts of the Penal Code.
Venckienė's colleague from the Path of Courage party, MP Vytautas Matulevičius, has recently indicated that Venckienė might ask for political asylum abroad.
"I will express my opinion. I personally do not discount the possibility that Venckienė might ask for political asylum in a foreign country. But this is my assumption. There are countries with the rule of law, where human rights, laws, and international conventions are respected," Matulevičius told reporters on Tuesday.
