Eglė Mačiulskienė wins competition to lead Raudondvaris Manor

Eglė Mačiulskienė will take over as head of Raudondvaris Manor on November 16 after winning a competition, LRT reported, citing Kaunas District Municipality.

The municipality said 13 candidates submitted applications and five reached the final stage.

Mačiulskienė studied at Vytautas Magnus University, earning a bachelor’s degree in business and management in 1994 and a master’s degree in 1996. From 2011 to 2016, she worked at Lietuvos dujos as a project manager and head of its customer department. She then worked at Energy Distribution Operator, first as sales manager for the Kaunas region and, from 2019 to 2026, as head of the Kaunas Networks Project Management Department. She is a member of the Lithuanian Marketing Association and the board of the Vytautas Magnus University alumni club.

Opposition Conservative MP Mindaugas Lingė questioned the competition’s transparency on Facebook on Thursday, claiming its winner had been known in advance. He said he had contacted the Special Investigation Service. Kaunas District Mayor’s adviser Edmundas Mališauskas told BNS the municipality had received no official complaints about the competition.

Scrutiny of hiring and procurement at the manor increased after an LRT investigation raised questions about the possibility that Prime Minister’s spouse Aistė Sinkevičienė had held a fictitious job there. The municipality suspended deputy director Egidijus Morkūnas and acting director Kotryna Inga Morkūnaitė after procurement issues were publicised; both left their posts in September.

The Public Procurement Office decided not to assess 71,000 euros in contracts between the manor and a company owned by Morkūnas, citing their low value. Law enforcement did not investigate the purchases, finding no indications of criminal activity. The Chief Official Ethics Commission decided not to investigate Morkūnaitė, saying it had not established that she had handled matters involving her father or his company. The commission has separately opened an investigation into the employment at the manor of the son of long-time director Snieguolė Navickienė, now the Kaunas District deputy mayor.