RIGA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Inga Kolegova, head of the Latvian State Environmental Service, is facing trial for withholding information about her business deals in her official asset declarations, the Baltic country's law enforcement authorities informed on Thursday.
The case against Kolegova, which at the end of July was forwarded to a Riga district court, is scheduled for hearing it late September.
According to the charges, in her asset declarations for 2013, 2014 and 2015, Kolegova withheld information about some of her properties, as well as business transactions.
In 2013, for instance, Kolegova failed to declare business deals worth more than 300,000 euros (347,081 U.S. dollars), and information about transactions worth over 600,000 euros in total was missing from her declarations for 2014 and 2015, the prosecutor said.
The Latvian Corruption Prevention Bureau first turned attention to Kolegova's asset declarations in the summer of 2016 when she was nominated to head the State Revenue Service and some politicians from the ruling Unity party started raising questions about her business deals.
After a week of political pressure and close public scrutiny, Kolegova withdrew her candidacy for the top post in the revenue service and resumed work as head of the State Environmental Service, but the probe into the omissions in her asset declarations continued.
