After Romanov fled to Russia to avoid prosecution for a trial for bank fraud, the party ceased existing.
Vladimir Romanov, owner of the majority of shares in the bank Ūkio bankas and majority shareholder of the Scottish Premier League football club Hearts and Lithuanian Basketball League club Žalgiris, announced his intention to establish a political party in February 2012.
[2][3] He was proposed as the party's chairman, but refused, instead putting forward disabled rights activist Joana Šimanauskienė, who was elected.
In August 2013, Lithuanian prosecutors announced an international search for Romanov on suspicion of embezzlement and misappropriation of high value assets.
[9] The party claimed to oppose "divide-and-conquer strategies of global bureaucrats", and supported direct mayoral elections.