The Customs Department Head Competition was won by Mantas Matulionis

Currently, he works as the head of the Operational Management Division of the Utena County Chief Police Commissariat, previously having served as the deputy director of the Environmental Protection Department.

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Finance Minister Kristupas Vaitiekūnas told BNS that he would not comment and advised to contact the Ministry’s Public Relations Department.

“I will not comment now. The Ministry can comment, the whole procedure is for such matters to be commented on, certainly not the minister should comment. (…) There are still procedures that must be properly completed, and then everything will be official,” K. Vaitiekūnas told BNS.

Deputy Finance Minister Lukas Jakubonis, who oversaw the Customs Department head competition, told BNS he does not remember who won it.

“I don’t remember, I did not deny it, I don’t remember. The deputy minister does not know, does not remember, does not know, you can write that,” L. Jakubonis told BNS.

The Ministry’s Public Relations Department told BNS that it has no information about the winner.

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According to LRT radio, law enforcement conclusions about his candidate are currently awaited.

After the Customs head competition was terminated in March, which was then won by the current deputy head Žaneta Rudaitienė, the ministry announced a new competition in April.

K. Vaitiekūnas then said he sets high requirements for the new head because Customs operates under complex geopolitical conditions.

As BNS wrote, the first Customs head competition in March was terminated after receiving a complaint about violated procedures. Ž. Rudaitienė was not appointed because the commission formation procedures were violated.

Former Customs director Darius Žvironas was dismissed at his own request at the end of August last year – he resigned after being detained drunk in July last year.

Currently, the department is temporarily headed by deputy director Vygantas Paigozinas.

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