Police found the body of 31-year-old paramedic Mantas Sadauskas on Tuesday evening at a homestead in Mileškūnai village, Panevėžys district, and opened murder and unlawful confinement investigations. Officers said the body had been concealed, buried and wrapped in a trampoline, while the case now centres on three detainees, including Sadauskas’s former wife Justina Gaigalaitė, who Lithuanian media identify as the main suspect. Investigators are also examining a third possible offence and are rebuilding Sadauskas’s final movements hour by hour.
Earlier that day, investigators found his car in a secluded area near the villages of Paliukai and Gegužinė, a few kilometres from the homestead. Relatives said Sadauskas had left to deliver a trampoline for a kindergarten event in Paįstrys eldership, and public attention has shifted to possible links with a bodybuilding business. Police have asked drivers to hand over dashcam footage from Paliukai village around 10 a.m. yesterday to help reconstruct his final hours.
Parliament’s budget and finance committee today opened scrutiny of the second-pillar pension overhaul and decided to seek an academic legal and economic opinion. Lawmakers want to test whether the draft fits a Constitutional Court ruling and what it would mean for the public interest and the financial system.
On energy, Arvydas Račkus warned that fuel prices in Lithuania have already risen about 30%, while gas in mid-April was still roughly 40% more expensive than a year earlier. He said households could start feeling the hit in bills from July because Lithuania still relies on gas to balance its power system.
Late attention focused on the Mantas Sadauskas murder case: ELTA reported that three suspects have been detained, while new details emerged about the alleged planning of the crime and the concealment of clues. Among the more significant late developments, the State Audit Office said state reserves may not reach residents in time in the event of a crisis or war.