A company controlled by the family of Lithuania's former prime minister Gintautas Paluckas promised publicly last summer to repay European Union subsidies it had misused. It never did.
The firm, Dankora, controlled by the then-prime minister's sister-in-law, Virginija Paluckienė, had received more than 170,000 euros from the National Paying Agency (NMA), Lithuania's EU funds distributor, to build electric vehicle and boat charging infrastructure in the coastal village of Drukai. The project was never completed.
According to the NMA, Dankora's deadline to complete the project was July 30, 2025. The day after it passed, journalists from the news site Delfi visited the company's plot in Drukai village and found no charging station, for boats or electric vehicles, had been built.
When it emerged that most of NMA's money had been redirected to Garnis, another Paluckas family business in which the then-prime minister held a 49% stake, the politician said he was unaware that Garnis had business ties with the company managed by his sister-in-law.
Kostas Mikalajunas, the then director of Dankora, also said he did not know that European funds were being directed toward the prime minister's business.
