Definition used:

Politically exposed persons mean natural persons who are or have been entrusted with prominent public functions and immediate family members, or persons known to be close associates of such persons.

Prominent public function

head of state, head of government, minister and deputy or assistant minister, secretary of state, chancellor of the parliament, the government or the ministry;
member of parliament;
member of supreme courts, constitutional courts or other high-level judicial bodies whose decisions are not subject to further appeal;
mayor of the municipality, director of the municipality administration;
member or the chairman of the governing body of the supreme state audit and control authority, deputy or member of the board of the central bank;
ambassador, provisional trustee, commander of the Lithuanian armed forces, commanders of the armed forces departments and units, chief of defence staff or senior official of foreign armed forces;
member of the management or supervisory body of public companies, public limited liability companies, private limited liability companies whose shares or interest representing more than one-half of all votes in the general meeting of these companies are owned by the state by the right of property;
member of the management or supervisory body of municipal companies, public limited liability companies, private limited liability companies whose shares or interest representing more than one-half of all votes in the general meeting of these companies are owned by the municipality and considered as large enterprises in accordance with the Law on Companies' Financial Reporting;
manager of an international intergovernmental organization, his deputy, member of management or supervisory body;
political party leader, his deputy, a member of the governing body.

Close family members mean the spouse or a person with whom a partnership is registered (hereinafter the common-law spouse), parents, siblings, children and children’s spouses, children common-law spouses.

Close associate:

a natural person who is the participant in the same legal entity with the politically exposed person holding or having held the position or the participant of the organisation having no status of legal entity, or maintains other business relationships;
any natural person who has sole beneficial ownership of a legal entity or the participant of the organisation having no status of legal entity, or legal arrangement which is known to have been set up for the benefit de facto of the politically exposed person.

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