Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she sees no need to resume parliamentary investigation into an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania, but calls on law enforcement agencies to continue their separate probe.
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President Grybauskaitė's annual press conference: No dialogue with Russia backing "terrorists" in Ukraine (8)
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated on Wednesday that a dialogue with Russia is impossible until Moscow "is engaged in aggression" and supports "terrorists in eastern Ukraine".
Vilnius City District Court on Wednesday sanctioned arrest of a Lithuanian army officer suspected of spying and another person he provided information to.
A lot of Russian spies are operating in Lithuania, so it’s likely that the recently-detained Lithuanian Air Force officer worked for Moscow, says Marius Laurinavičius, an analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre.
Lithuanian prosecutors have detained several individuals suspected of spying for a foreign government. One of the suspects is an officer of the Lithuanian Army.
The Lithuanian Parliament was proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission and to investigate and assess charges against Lithuania for its purported participation in the secret CIA prison programme. Meanwhile Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday it had sent a legal assistan...
Lithuanian State Security Department chief Gediminas Grina told parliament on Tuesday he could not give any new answers about the US Central Intelligence Agency's secret prisons.
Lithuania's Prosecutor General Darius Valys on Tuesday asked parliament to strip MP Rimas Antanas Ručys (Order and Justice party) of his legal immunity to face prosecution for allegedly taking a bribe.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has set up a special group for investigation of all data about the alleged prison of the US Central Intelligence Agency in Lithuania for interrogation of suspected terrorists, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
The Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) probe, headed by the Prosecutor General's Office, into possible financial crimes committed by the heads and shareholders of bank Snoras has advanced further.
Mečys Laurinkus, who headed Lithuania's State Security Department in 1998-2004, says that the institution assisted the United States in its counter-terrorism efforts during the period, but did not ask for a reward and did not violate laws or international commitments.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said he hopes prosecutors will investigate reports that a secret CIA detention site could have been operated in Lithuania in 2005-2006.
The Prosecutor's General Office has said on Wednesday it will ask the United States government for additional information about secret detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists abroad.
President Grybauskaitė: Lithuania will have to accept responsibility, if CIA prison allegations prove correct (1)
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said on Wednesday that the reports on alleged CIA-operated prison in Lithuania will have to be investigated by the Prosecutor General's Office, and if the information proves correct, Lithuania will have to take responsibility.
The United States had notified Lithuania in advance of the publication of the Senate report about prisoner torturing performed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in secret detention centres, including one possibly in Lithuania.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office asks that former presidential adviser Daiva Ulbinaitė be found guilty of leaking a state secret and abusing her powers and be imposed a fine of 32,500 litas (EUR 9,400), her lawyer Giedrius Danelius said.
The Special Investigation Service (STT) has launched a pre-trial investigation into possible abuse of office or misuse of powers by former deputy minister of health Gediminas Černiauskas and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.
After identifying persons who spied for Belarus, Lithuania's special services attempted, unsuccessfully, to re-recruit them, says the State Security Department's Director General Gediminas Grina.
A Lithuanian national, who served as a paramedic in the country's Armed Forces, has been charged with spying against the state. The criminal case was handed to court on Wednesday, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
The Lithuanian national who is suspected of spying for Belarus is a former electromechanic at Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) Romualdas Lipskis, who was under surveillance for three years, according to DELFI sources.