Raimondas Šukys was born on 27 October 1966 in the city of Šiauliai, Lithuanian SSR.
In 1996, he completed doctoral studies at Vilnius University, focusing his research on the restoration and protection of property rights.
He studied law at Vilnius University and graduated with honors in 1992, earning a lawyer’s qualification.
In 1984, he graduated from Šiaulių Juliaus Janonio Secondary School (now J. Janonis Gymnasium).
In the interim between high-profile public offices, Šukys also engaged in private business. From 2019, he was listed as the director of a small hospitality company, Pasažo smuklė, UAB (a Klaipėda-based pub/restaurant venture with €2,500 share capital). He presumably resigned that post upon re-entering the Seimas in late 2024, since MPs cannot concurrently manage a private company.
A declassified State Security Department (VSD) report implicated Šukys in the 2018 “MG Baltic” political corruption affair, claiming that back in 2009 the MG Baltic group had considered him as a potential candidate for Seimas Speaker. Šukys disputed the report’s veracity and in 2019 sued the VSD, alleging that the false allegations in it derailed his reappointment for a second term as Seimas Ombudsman.
In 1998–1999 he was a legal consultant (jurist) at the private company "BNA grupė," and in 1999–2000 he served as a legal advisor on civil law issues at the Government Chancellery.
Between 1993 and 1997, he worked in the Seimas as a referent for the Democratic Labour Party (LDDP) faction (1993–1994) and as an advisor to the Seimas Economic Crimes Investigation Commission (1994–1997).
He was an assistant lecturer at the Vilnius University Faculty of Law from 1992 until 2004, teaching courses on consumer rights protection and competition law.
From 1991 to 1994 he worked as a legal adviser, first at the "Šiaulių kraštas" daily newspaper and then at the consulting company "Verslo raktas."
He attended mandatory military service in the Red Army from 1985 to 1987.
He served as First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas starting 11 September 2025.
He was formally appointed First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas on 11 September 2025 with the support of 82 deputies.
He was appointed as one of the two vice‑speakers of the Seimas in spring 2025, responsible for coordinating parliamentary oversight, including implementation of Constitutional Court decisions.
He returned to the Seimas in the 2024–2028 term (Thirteenth Seimas) after a 12-year hiatus, having been elected via the new party “Nemuno Aušra” list.
He served as Minister of Health of Lithuania from 10 March 2010 until 13 December 2012.
He was a Deputy Speaker of the Seimas from 2008 to 2010, and held the office of First Deputy Speaker from 22 September 2009 until 10 March 2010.
He resigned as Lithuania’s Minister of the Interior in December 2007 after a drunk off-duty police officer fatally struck three children, a tragedy that led President Valdas Adamkus to insist on the resignation of both Šukys and Police Commissioner General Vytautas Grigaravičius.
He served as Minister of the Interior of Lithuania from 12 July 2006 until 10 December 2007.
He served as a Member of the Seimas during the 2004–2008 term (Ninth Seimas), once again winning the Fabijoniškės constituency (No. 5).
In 2002–2003, Šukys briefly served as a member of the Vilnius City Municipal Council.
He was elected as a Member of the Seimas in the 2000–2004 term (Eighth Seimas) representing Vilnius’s Fabijoniškės single-member constituency (No. 5).
He was previously a member of the Lithuanian Green Party (2020–2024) and before that of the Liberal and Centre Union (2003–2012) and Liberal Union (1997–2003).
In the October 2024 parliamentary elections, the new party “Nemuno Aušra” received about 15% of the vote (third place nationally) and won 14 Seimas seats. Šukys secured one of those seats via the party’s list, with preferential (“pirmumo”) votes placing him among the top of his party’s elected candidates (second in the final list order).
Earlier in his career, Šukys was elected to the Seimas in three consecutive elections (2000, 2004, 2008), each time winning the single-member Fabijoniškės constituency in Vilnius. He did not return to parliament after 2012 (skipping the 2012 and 2016 elections), remaining out of the Seimas for 12 years until his comeback via the 2024 elections.
As a Member of Seimas and state official, Šukys’s earnings have come primarily from public-sector salaries. For example, in 2017 a rank-and-file MP’s gross monthly pay was about €2,530 (≈€1,980 net). By late 2024, after legal reforms linking politicians’ pay to average wages, an ordinary Seimas member’s pay had roughly doubled (net ~€3,780/month). In his current role as First Deputy Speaker, Šukys earns a higher salary (on the order of ~€5,200 gross, or over €3,500 net, per month, by estimation).
Šukys’s asset declarations over the past decade do not show any dramatic or unexplained changes in wealth. He has publicly declared his assets and income as required by law (covering properties, savings, and salaries), and no significant irregularities or surges in net worth have been reported. His family members are not known to possess extraordinary wealth either, according to the available public records.
While serving as a government minister (Interior in 2006–2007; Health in 2010–2012), Šukys received a ministerial salary. At the time, a cabinet minister’s official pay was on the order of €3,000–€3,500 per month before taxes (estimated, based on the pay scales in place). Likewise, during his term as a Seimas Ombudsman (2013–2018), his salary was roughly in the same range (~€3,000 gross monthly, per averages for that institution).