In addition, according to his data, A. Beinoras’ complaints and lawsuits were dismissed as unfounded.
“First of all, I was surprised that this is a year-old story and that after a year, someone decided to write an article about it now. In reality, one should ask the former minister what the real situation was,” R. Kaunas told reporters on Tuesday.
“As far as I am informed, and how much information we received, Mr. Beinoras appealed to the prosecutor’s office and to the courts, and everywhere his lawsuits and complaints were dismissed as unfounded. I assume that those decisions were indeed lawful and consistent with reality, but for a broader comment, one should probably ask the former leadership,” the minister said.
As reported by the news portal “Delfi” on Tuesday, Audrius Beinoras, who served in the Lithuanian army for three decades, had to leave it last summer because his service contract was not extended.
The former Deputy Director of the Army Conscription and Manning Service (now – Military Commandants’ Board) calls such a decision revenge for raising questions about why services are sought to be purchased from the same companies and sharing this information with the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The latter had granted him whistleblower status, protecting individuals who reported possible violations in workplaces, but refused to initiate a pre-trial investigation into the procurements.
In 2024 and 2025, A. Beinoras raised questions about public procurements related to the update of the “Karys.lt” website, where conscript lists are published. According to him, the tenders for this were intended for a single supplier, who had previously created this system.
The terms required the supplier to work with the closed-source “Easy Web4” content management system, which is created and managed only by “Fresh Media,” the company that developed the website. As A. Beinoras explained, this meant that other companies simply could not perform these tasks.
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The company itself denies this, stating that all data necessary for website management has been transferred to the national defense system.
The Ministry of National Defense (KAM) informed “Delfi” that the tender is currently underway and, although “Karys.lt” operates on a closed-source basis, the current public procurement stipulates that the website will operate on an open-source basis.
A. Beinoras claims that he also faced disfavor from the management because he raised questions about some souvenirs distributed during military exercises.
KAM stated that a year ago, the Senior Officers’ Career Planning Commission assessed the needs and capabilities of the national defense system and took into account the recommendations of A. Beinoras’ direct and higher supervisor not to extend his professional military service, and submitted a corresponding proposal to the then minister Dovilė Šakalienė, who made that decision.
At the same time, a total of seven requests for service extension were being considered, but only A. Beinoras received a negative response.
Another reason was the disciplinary penalty received by A. Beinoras for calling his subordinate “a weirdo” – the soldier does not deny the fact itself, but believes that the penalty was imposed on him unfairly, and he has appealed it to court.
Deividas Matulionis, the President’s chief advisor on national security, told Žinių radijas on Tuesday that he did not want to evaluate who is right in this story, but emphasized the necessity of transparent public procurements.
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