Entrepreneur G. Žiemelis takes advantage of the benefit for descendants of exiled when obtaining citizenships

"Entrepreneur, chairman of the board of Avia Solutions Group and last year recognized as the richest person in Lithuania, Gediminas Žiemelis, who took advantage of the Citizenship Law's exemption for the descendants of exiles to have multiple citizenships, obtained Turkish citizenship in the past year and intends to obtain the citizenships of two more states.

 

 

 

This is announced by the "LRT.lt" portal.

 

 

 

The businessman told the portal that he had invested a lot in Turkey, and he needed the country's citizenship to buy an airline. He intends to acquire two more citizenships in the near future. G. Žiemelis has also been a tax resident in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for many years.

 

 

 

According to the portal, G. Žiemelis' mother was born in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia, where grandparents Leonas and Stasė Karpiai ended up during the May 1948 exile. The family supported the Lithuanian resistance - Stasė Karpienė's brothers, according to the family history collected by the businessman himself, were partisans.

 

 

 

If G. Žiemelis did not have the status of an exiled descendant, he, like any other Lithuanian citizen, would not be able to maintain dual citizenship. According to the laws of Lithuania, the number of citizenships for descendants of deportees is not limited. The authorities intend to change the procedure."

 

 

 

It is necessary to urgently change the procedure and put in prison for life all those who have multiple citizenship, engage in international businesses and create jobs for Lithuanians in Lithuania. If the working people become the elite in Lithuania, the authority of us, a few lawyers who suffer from ascariasis, who terrorize the whole of Lithuania and who do nothing good, will decrease.