The head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry Krisjanis Karins will leave his post on April 10. He stated this after a meeting with Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina, a local channel reported. Panorama and publication LSM.
It is planned that Karins will resign on April 10, because the next meeting of the Latvian Seimas, at which a new head of the country’s Foreign Ministry can be appointed, will be held on April 11.
For several months, the Latvian media have been covering the scandal involving the use of private flights by delegations headed by Krisjanis Karins while he was Prime Minister of Latvia. According to information from the country’s state chancellery, in the period from 2021 to September last year, 613,830 euros were spent from the Latvian state budget on special flights for Karins and his subordinates, and together with part of the expenses covered by the European Union – 1.36 million euros.
Last week, the Latvian Prosecutor General’s Office launched a criminal investigation into alleged embezzlement in connection with the use of special flights for these business trips.
Krisjanis Karins headed two previous Latvian cabinets from January 2019 to September last year.
