He left shortly after for Finland, before returning in 1987, divorcing his Belarusian wife with two children (Julia, Eduard) and marrying Jolanta Blažytė.

With power he quickly gained tremendous success in his business empire that now includes the importation of natural gas from Gazprom, in addition to flourishing enterprises in the food production (Kėdainių konservų fabrikas, UAB) and animal fodder industries.

Between 1997 and 2003 was chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Employers, and in 2000 was selected as a non-party member of the Naujoji sąjunga (New Union) social liberal party in the Seimas (parliament).

The DP scored highly during the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections, gaining 30.2% of the popular vote and returning five MEPs.

Victor Uspaskich flew to his hometown Urdoma (Russia) to his brother's funeral and came back in late 2007.

[4][5] Even though the immunity has been stripped, Lithuanian authorities were not able to actually persecute Uspaskich due to limitation period and the formal reorganisation of the Labour Party.

[8] On 27 December 2020, Uspaskich started advertising mineral water that can be bought via a network of individuals across the country.

He has been asked to apologise publicly by his group within the European Parliament, and claimed he had "only aimed at those who insulted him, not the LGBT community as a whole".