Jānis Ādamsons

Ādamsons graduated from the Kiev Higher Naval School, which is now the location of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in 1979 as a navigator and then served in the Soviet Union's Far East (Shikotan, Sakhalin, Nakhodka) with the border troops for ten years.

[4] The allegations were dismissed by then Prime Minister Māris Gailis as being made in bad-faith by those affected by Ādamsons' work fighting crime.

[8] His joining the party meant that it officially had representation in parliament, and his new position gave him automatic membership of the LSDSP Central Committee.

[12] Throughout late 1995 to early 1996, Ādamsons accused then Prime Minister Andris Šķēle of provoking unrest with border and custom officials by deliberately and illegally sending through fake smugglers.

[13] He also accused Andris of embezzling 'foreign credits', and of deliberately bankrupting state-run industries in the interest of privatizing the personally profiting from them.

[15] On 15 July 1996, Ādamsons went on television once again to accuse Šķēle of corruption, but also inferred that masons were partially responsible for the internal unrest in the government.

[16] By February 1997 Ādamsons was calling for an early election and characterized Šķēle's government as an authoritarian regime from which Latvia should be saved.

who was assisting with a 12-year investigation into the matter, publicly named Šķēle as a member of a ring of pedophiles selling young boys for sex.