Dainius Kreivys (born 8 April 1970) is a Lithuanian businessman and politician who served as the Minister of Economy of Lithuania from 2008 to 2011 and is a member of Seimas since 2012.
[11] The review was followed by the adoption of Transparency Guidelines that required all state-owned enterprises to prepare annual and interim financial statements, to make public the company's goals and objectives, financial and other performance, number of employees, salary funds, monthly salary of company executives and their deputies, purchases and investments made.
[15] Together with the then Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, D. Kreivys initiated launches of the first large global service centres – Barclays, Western Union[16] and others – in Lithuania.
[20] The council, composed of chief executive officers of global companies, submitted its recommendations to the Lithuanian Government on investment policies and regulations.
[22] Seven years later, in 2018, media published leaked documents from State Security Department of Lithuania, which revealed that Kreivys' resignation was a result of carefully planned slander campaign.
[28] In 2011 Kreivys resigned as minister of the economy following public comment from President Grybauskaitė[29] that he had lost confidence due to conflict of interest following inquiries by European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and Chief Official Ethics Commission of Lithuania for approving European Union (EU) funding for a nation-wide school renovation program benefiting business interests of his immediate family.
OLAF demanded Lithuanian government return the funding granted[33] (the funding was never returned by the Kreivys family companies); commented that the public procurement tender by Municipality of Vilnius won by Kreivienė's company was also unlawful; and commented that the person who chose the tender winner later became Kreivys' ministerial advisor.
[34] Kreivys was also implicated in alleged influence peddling while minister of the economy on behalf of BOD Group, a solar energy business, which resulted in 14 million euros in EU funding for the company in 2009.
In 2011, after Kreivys left his ministerial assignment, his mother's businesses were granted 1 million litas (289,620 euros) of EU funding for training purposes by two other conservative government ministers, in an alleged conflict of interest.
[45] D. Kreivys actively opposed the construction of the unsafe Belarusian NPP and, as a member of the opposition, criticised his predecessor[46] for failing to ensure that Lithuania would no longer trade electricity with Belarus.
[54] In 2024, the Parliament also adopted an updated National Energy Independence Strategy (NENS), prepared under the leadership of minister D. Kreivys, which will enable Lithuania to become a fully climate-neutral country by 2050, exporting electricity from renewable sources.
The interpellation was initiated by 62 opposition members, who raised questions about the high electricity prices due to the critical situation in the energy sector.
In response to the questions, Mr Kreivys said that the main factor was the tenfold increase natural gas prices due to Russia's energy war against Europe.
His son Daumantas is named after the pseudonym of one of the leaders of the anti-Soviet Lithuanian partisan armed resistance movement, Juozas Lukša-Daumantas.
Kreivys and his wife (director of external economic policy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania) were ranked as 4th and 5th wealthiest politicians & public servants in 2020.
[65] Kreivys' mother Florentina Kreivienė was ranked as the 5th wealthiest woman in Lithuania in 2011 with a net worth of more than 49 million euros.