Criminal Code

A Vilnius court on Monday imposed restriction of freedom for Jurijus Subotinas, resident of the country's eastern city of Visaginas, for publishing a comment that expressed support to Soviet deportations.

A Vilnius court on Wednesday decided to merge two cases of the January 13 trial into one – criminal charges against two former Soviet officers will be added to the big case heard for almost two years.

Lithuania's parliament on 19 October passed amendments initiated by President Dalia Grybauskaitė that en able the country's law-enforcement to put financial offenders who have fled the country on trial.

A Šakiai court on Monday found Russian border guard Ruslan Peregud guilty of unlawfully entering Lithuania. As the man had already spent 30 days in detention, the time was included in the penalty term, therefore, he was released in courtroom as having already served his sentence.

Lithuanian prosecutor has asked for a 60-day arrest of the Russian border guard for swimming across the River Šešupė that runs along the Lithuanian-Kaliningrad border in a drunken condition.

Lithuania's parliament will consider the proposal to raise fines for offenses and link the sizes of the fines with the size of the damage, gains by offenders or the size of bribes in criminal investigations.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė plans to table amendments to the Criminal Code to increase fines for all crimes and to tie fines for corruption crimes to the amount of damage done, of benefit received by perpetrators or of bribe paid.

Sunday morning at the Nemenčinė forest, a 12-person group gathers. It could be noted that some men are wearing the Russian model masked uniforms and are armed with the Russian machine guns. After getting signals from worried citizens, the police responds immediately, anti-terrorist operations team A...

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office told BNS on Wednesday it had refused opening a pre-trial investigation into MP Mindaugas Bastys' assistance to a foreign country to act against Lithuania.

Lithuanian border guards said on Tuesday that they have launched a pre-trial investigation after a light aircraft piloted by a Danish national last week crossed the country's border with Belarus.

Gintaras Steponavičius of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement said on Friday that he would not step down as a lawmaker despite calls from Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, to resign amid illegal funding suspicions

The Vilnius Regional Prosecutor's Office has launched a pre-trial investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Kęstutis Pūkas, a member of the Seimas.

A 26-year-old man caught drunk-driving on the New Year's night faces criminal liability under Lithuania's tightened regulations, the Prosecutor General' Office said on Wednesday.

A group of eight accomplices who used to take Lithuanian citizens to the United Kingdom to later pocket their social benefits in the country have been charged with human trafficking, a Šiauliai court said on Monday.

Lithuanian prosecutors have opened an investigation into anti-gay statements posted in comment sections of Lithuanian online newspapers in the wake of the deadly attack in a night club in Orlando, Florida.

The high-profile corruption case, which has already seen suspicions brought against MG Baltic vice-president Raimonas Kurlianskis and former leader of the Liberal Movement Eligijus Masiulis, may implicate more big names.

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė's decision to veto amendments to the Criminal Code criminalizing the disclosure of information from closed court proceedings.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has vetoed amendments to the Criminal Code introducing criminal liability for making material from closed court sessions public.

Lithuanian reporters have asked the country's president to veto a law that introduces penalties for reporting on non-open trial procedures.

Critics say that the Lithuanian intelligence body's proposals to make spreading disinformation a criminal offence in order "to step up information security" are reminiscent of the Soviet times and may lead to restrictions on the freedom of expression.