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International Internet Magazine. Baltic States news & analytics Friday, 26.04.2024, 07:54

No candidate for Latvian Corruption Prevention Bureau's head makes it to second round of tender

one of the candidates competing for the post of the Corruption Prevention Bureau's (KNAB) head has been selected for the second round of the tender, State Chancellery director Martins Krievins, who chairs the panel assessing the candidates, told journalists today.

Altogether, ten applications were received in the tender, organized to pick Latvia's next anti-corruption chief.


According to information obtained by LETA, four of these applicants included current KNAB chief Jaroslavs Strelcenoks, former State Police Zemgale Administration Chief Haralds Laidins, former interior minister Maris Gulbis and Rihards Bunka, a former security head at Riga Central Prison.


Unofficial information suggest that other candidates included Kristaps Zakulis, a former head of the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC), and Ilja Boronovskis, strategic planning head at the Internal Security Bureau.


Strelcenoks' current term in office runs out on November 17.







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