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Head of Lithuanian food safety authority to be sacked: PM

Xinhua, September 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Jonas Milius, chief of Lithuania's State Food and Veterinary Authority will be sacked due to allegations against him, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius announced on Thursday.

Back in July, the general prosecutor's office of Lithuania started a pre-trial investigation into the case in which Milius, director of the food safety authority, is suspected of abuse of office and forgery of documents.

"The decisions has been made not to approve Milius' activity report," Butkevicius was quoted as telling reporters by local website 15min.lt.

The head of food supervision agency was asked to prepare his activity report earlier in order to assess whether or not his authority broke the rules as law enforcement agencies presumed.

Butkevicius said that members of his cabinet received additional information concerning Milius from Special Investigations Service. However, the data is confidential.

"The material was presented to members of the cabinet; each of them underwrote it would not be published," the head of the government stressed.

It is suspected that the agency hid information about human health-threatening bacteria being found in frozen dumplings produced by Judex, a manufacturing company based in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas.

Milius has led the food agency since 2010. He claimed earlier that he did not break any rules and refused to resign. Endit