Whistleblower Status Did Not Protect Officer From Dismissal From Lithuanian Armed Forces

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Former Lithuanian army officer Jonas Virbalis was forced to go to court after the army decided not to renew his professional military service contract. This happened after he reported to his commanders and then to the Prosecutor General's Office a potentially opaque scheme in which volunteer soldiers could be fictitiously called up for exercises and the money received was deposited into an agreed-upon "fund".