The company allegedly paid the wayward inspector LVL 55,000, though investigations are continuing into the bribery and also the suspected violations at Phillips that led to the bribe scenario. The head of the liquidations and insolvency department at the LPA, Ilona Skadi a, was murdered several months ago. Investigations are continuing, especially with the discovery of some LVL 100,000 in her office safe. A poll by SKDS shows that 49.8 per cent of respondents feel that religion is a big part of their lives . However, that is balanced by 46.2 per cent that say the opposite.
Women seem to be much more religious than men, according to the survey results.
There was controversy and anger, as seven bus drivers bringing children to the children's song and dance festival in R ga were found to be legally drunk . However, since the checkpoint was in R ga, the children had already travelled with a drunk driver. Adding to the trouble, about 25 of the children at the festival came down with Salmonella poisoning. More controversy over sex abuse in Latvia , as a local Russian-language paper suggested that many of the children adopted by Swedish families are being sexually abused. Swedish officials also criticised their Latvian counterparts of doing little to solve sex crimes.