Tomas Domarkas

His wife, named Živilė, is his legal spouse (with whom he had a prenuptial agreement) and she herself went through personal bankruptcy around 2022, prior to his own bankruptcy attempt.

Tomas Domarkas was born on 1977-11-30 in Plungė.

He is married.

He was born and raised in Plungė and later lived in Klaipėda.

He has at least one daughter, and a portion of his salary is allocated as child support for her under a settlement with his wife.

He obtained a Master’s degree in Marketing Management from Klaipėda University in 2001.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Economics from Klaipėda University in 1999.

He was the director of UAB NTG between 2020 and 2024.

He was the director of UAB “Ladula” from 2018 to 2024.

From 2010 to 2024, he served as the director of UAB “MGM Baltija”.

Together with his wife, he co-owned a construction company called “Smėlio takas” that was involved in construction equipment rental and building projects. The company took out bank loans (personally guaranteed by the couple) but went bankrupt in 2012 following the financial crisis.

From 2001 to 2005, he was the director of UAB “Ribenos prekyba”.

From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a sales manager at AB “Utenos mėsa”.

In the Seimas, he is a member of the “Nemuno Aušra” parliamentary faction.

He has been a member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) since November 14, 2024, during the 2024–2028 term.

He became a member of the political party “Nemuno Aušra” in 2024.

He serves as a member of the Seimas Environmental Protection Committee.

He is the Deputy Chair of the Seimas Commission for Marine Affairs.

He won the runoff on October 27, 2024, securing 6,758 votes (51.11%) against Jurgis Razma’s 6,464 votes (48.89%), thus winning the Plungė–Rietavas seat by a margin of 294 votes.

In the first round of the 2024 Seimas elections for the Plungė–Rietavas single-member constituency, Domarkas placed second with 3,402 votes (20.62%), narrowly behind incumbent Jurgis Razma who had 3,501 votes (21.22%).

He was elected to the Seimas in 2024 from the single-member Plungė–Rietavas constituency (No. 35) as a “Nemuno Aušra” candidate.

In that 2024 election, he defeated incumbent MP and Seimas Vice Speaker Jurgis Razma.

He was considered a political newcomer during the 2024 Seimas elections.

He ran in both the Plungė–Rietavas single-member constituency and on the “Nemuno Aušra” multi-member national list in the 2024 elections, but since he won the constituency seat his list ranking did not affect his Seimas entry (and was not prominently documented).

He was included as a candidate on the “Nemuno Aušra” party’s national list in the 2024 elections but did not secure a seat via the multi-member list vote; his Seimas mandate came from winning the single-member Plungė–Rietavas constituency in the runoff.

Domarkas’s victory in 2024 meant he took over the Plungė–Rietavas Seimas seat previously held by Jonas Varkalys (Liberal Movement), who had served as the constituency’s MP during the 2016–2020 and 2020–2024 parliamentary terms.

In his 2024 candidate asset declaration, Domarkas reported having only about €3,000 in savings and no other personal assets, and that in 2023 he earned approximately €10,500 and paid €650 in income tax.

In his 2024 public asset declaration, Domarkas reported only about €3,000 in savings and no other personal assets, whereas his wife Živilė Domarkienė declared roughly €111,000 in assets (including ~€68,000 in cash, ~€37,500 in loans receivable, and €2,500 in stocks).

After becoming an MP in late 2024, Domarkas’s official salary rose to roughly €4,000 per month (net), a dramatic jump from his pre-Seimas income of about €350 per month.

By 2025, court records showed Domarkas’s official take-home pay was only around €350 per month (after deductions like child support), which led the court to question how he managed to pay off about €1,000 in fines from 2022–2024.

He is a member of 26 inter-parliamentary groups and 3 parliamentary friendship groups in the Seimas.

In Feb 2025, the Klaipėda court denied his personal bankruptcy request, citing his intentional avoidance of paying debts.

Media reports indicated that his debts amounted to nearly €1.8 million.

Court findings revealed that after Domarkas became a Seimas member, his personal monthly expenses jumped to about €1,840 (from around €350 previously), suggesting he expanded his spending once his salary increased instead of using the funds to pay down debts.

Despite claiming insolvency, he was found to be living a relatively comfortable lifestyle: press reports noted he had financed his daughter’s education (spending thousands of euros on her schooling) and that he resides in a private house which he rents from a company owned by his father.

In early 2025, despite nearly €1.8 million debt and filing for bankruptcy, he vacationed in Spain (Dec 30 – Jan 5) and was planning trips to Thailand, Turkey, and Singapore.

All of his criminal convictions have been expunged (legally expired) as of 2024.

When asked in 2024 about possibly resorting to violence in parliament, he replied: “If they provoke, who knows how it will be.”

He explained that his debts stemmed from the 2008–2012 financial crisis, saying he had been a guarantor for a company and those obligations “caught up” with him.

Media reports suggested he might still be indirectly running a company called “REDU LT” (generating six-figure revenue) despite officially stepping away, though Domarkas denied this.

Between 2022 and 2024, he was administratively fined 20 times (about €1,000 in total, all fines paid).

Court findings showed that in recent years he drew only €600–700 per month as salary while directing three companies, which was deemed a deliberate tactic to avoid repaying creditors.

According to media reports, some of his relatives are owed a substantial debt that has remained unpaid for over a decade despite a court ruling, contradicting his public assertion that he owes money “only to banks.”

He has multiple prior criminal convictions, including for financial crimes and for assaulting two people.

In 2015, he was convicted of a violent public order offense after he and an accomplice assaulted two men.

Also in 2015, he was convicted for fraudulent bookkeeping and fraud in an attempt to illegally cancel another company’s large VAT obligation.

In 2009, he was convicted of negligent bookkeeping (aplaidus apskaitos tvarkymas).

He justified these vacation plans by saying he was “very tired during the election campaign.”

Asked about joining so many parliamentary groups (29 in total), Domarkas explained in early 2025 that he “just signed up” for all possible inter-parliamentary and friendship groups at first, intending to observe and later remain only in those most relevant to him – because joining groups later would be more difficult once they start their work.

After winning, he said he would “start from the ABCs of politics,” acknowledging he had much to learn.

During the 2024 campaign, he claimed that ex-MP Jonas Varkalys had been “11 times convicted,” joking that he still had “seven” more chances to catch up to that number.

He speaks Russian fluently and has basic proficiency in English and French.

His hobbies include car sports, fishing, and walking.