Eugenijus Sabutis

He speaks English and Russian.

He is married to Rasa Sabutienė and has a son named Tomas.

Eugenijus Sabutis is ethnically Lithuanian.

Eugenijus Sabutis was born on 1975-09-10 in the city of Jonava, Lithuania.

In 2001, Sabutis earned a law degree from Vytautas Magnus University.

In 1999, he graduated from Vytautas Magnus University with a degree in Philosophy.

From 2011 to 2015, he served as the Director of the Jonava Emergency Medical Station (Greitosios medicinos pagalbos stotis).

During 2007–2011, he was the head of the Human Resources and Administration Department at UAB "Projektų centras."

From 2001 to 2007, Sabutis worked as a personnel manager at the Jonava-based company AB "Achema."

Sabutis serves in the leadership of the Social Democratic Party’s Jonava district branch, as one of the branch’s deputy chairpersons.

He serves as a deputy leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s faction in the Seimas.

Sabutis was re-elected and is serving as a Member of the Seimas for the 2024–2028 parliamentary term.

From December 2024 to September 2025, Sabutis served as the Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania.

He served as a Member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) during the 2020–2024 term (the 13th Seimas).

Sabutis again held the position of Jonava Deputy Mayor from 2019 until 2020, prior to entering the parliament.

He was the Mayor of Jonava District Municipality from 2016 until 2019.

Sabutis served as Deputy Mayor of Jonava District Municipality from 2015 to 2016.

In October 2015, Sabutis was appointed to lead the LSDP Jonava district branch’s election headquarters (campaign team) for the 2016 Seimas elections.

He has been a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) since 2014.

Since September 26, 2025, he has been serving as a member of the Seimas Committee on Economics (Ekonomikos komitetas).

From November 19, 2024 to September 25, 2025, Sabutis was a member of the Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs (Teisės ir teisėtvarkos komitetas).

In the 2024 Seimas elections, Sabutis was re-elected in Jonavos (constituency No. 60) by winning outright in the first round with 8,619 votes (54.39%), eliminating the need for a runoff; he also received 2,413 preferential votes on the LSDP’s national multi-member list.

Sabutis was re-elected to the Seimas in 2024, again representing the Jonavos constituency No. 60 as a Social Democratic candidate.

In the 2024 parliamentary elections, Sabutis was listed as number 24 on the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s national candidate list.

He was elected to the Seimas in 2020 as the LSDP candidate for the single-member Jonavos constituency (No. 60).

In May 2017, he won the direct mayoral election and became the Mayor of Jonava District Municipality.

In the 2015 municipal elections, Sabutis was elected to the Council of Jonava District Municipality.

By 2023, Sabutis’s declared assets had increased significantly: his real estate holdings (apartments) were valued at €55,700, and the combined net worth of Sabutis and his wife rose from about €76,368 in 2020 to €121,706 in 2023 (nearly doubling over four years).

As a Member of Parliament, Sabutis’s income is essentially his public salary: rank-and-file Seimas members earned roughly €2,200 per month net (with increases to ~€3,800 net starting in late 2024), and ministers received slightly higher pay (Sabutis’s tenure as Transport Minister in 2024–2025 paid an estimated ~€2,700 net monthly).

Before entering the Seimas, Sabutis’s declared personal assets were very modest: in 2019 he reported owning an apartment valued at €15,600 and a car worth €2,100, with no significant savings.

Sabutis’s wife, Rasa Sabutienė, declared a vehicle worth around €15,500 and approximately €12,000 in cash savings in 2019.

As Mayor of Jonava District (2016–2019), Sabutis’s official gross monthly salary was approximately €5,356 (before taxes).

As of the end of 2025, the “Čekiukų” municipal funds case involving Sabutis remained unresolved – the investigation was still ongoing and no final legal decision had been made.

On 2025-10-28, Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service (STT) announced that Sabutis had been notified as a suspect in the so-called “Čekiukų” (receipt) case – investigators allege he submitted false expense reports as a Jonava councillor, causing over €3,000 in damage, and he faces suspicions of abuse of office, embezzlement, and document forgery.

On 2025-09-23, the Seimas voted to strip Sabutis of his parliamentary legal immunity (84 MPs in favor, 1 against, 13 abstentions) to allow prosecutors to pursue charges in the “Čekiukų” municipal funds case.

Investigators suspect that Sabutis may have illicitly misappropriated about €2955 of municipal funds by using forged documents (as part of the "Čekiukų" case).

On 2025-08-18, Lithuania’s Prosecutor General asked the Seimas to lift Sabutis’s parliamentary immunity in connection with the "Čekiukų" case, planning to bring formal charges.

On 2025-08-08, prosecutors announced that Sabutis was given special witness status in a pre-trial investigation related to the "Čekiukų" (receipts) scandal in Jonava municipality.

On August 6, 2025, Sabutis withdrew his candidacy for the post of Prime Minister during the LSDP presidium meeting selecting a new government leader.