Jānis Dūklavs | |
Office: | Minister of Agriculture |
Primeminister: | Laimdota Straujuma Māris Kučinskis |
Term Start: | 22 January 2014 |
Term End: | 23 January 2019 |
Predecessor: | Laimdota Straujuma |
Successor: | Kaspars Gerhards |
Primeminister1: | Valdis Dombrovskis |
Term Start1: | 12 March 2009 |
Term End1: | 25 October 2011 |
Predecessor1: | Mārtiņš Roze |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1952 |
Birth Place: | Ķegums, Latvia |
Party: | Union of Greens and Farmers |
Jānis Dūklavs (born 24 November 1952) is a Latvian politician from Union of Greens and Farmers. Dūklavs was Minister of Agriculture of Latvia from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2019.[1]
Dūklavs came into disrepute during the Hotel Rīdzene leaks scandal in 2017, during which transcripts of secretly recorded talks between Aivars Lembergs, Andris Šķēle, Ainārs Šlesers and other individuals at the Hotel Rīdzene were published by the Ir magazine.[2] [3] The transcripts of the recordings feature Dūklavs asking Ainārs Šlesers for help selling a piece of undeclared land next to the Riga Freeport for 15 million Euros.[4] [5]