Prosecutor General

The Prosecutor General's Office of Lithuania says it has taken all necessary actions for the extradition of Vasily Kotlerov, a Russian citizen detained in Italy who is one of the suspects in the so-called 13 January case. It has been reported that Kotlerov disappeared in Italy. The Lithuanian prosec...

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office has finished the pre-trial investigation into the 13 January massacre case in which 69 people, citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, have been named suspects.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz said during Wednesday's plenary session in Brussels that the Parliament had received another request from Lithuanian prosecutors to have MEP Viktor Uspaskich stripped of his legal immunity.

Member of Parliament Remigijus Šimašius (the Liberal Movement) has addressed the Prosecutor General's Office over the loan issued by municipal enterprise responsible for district heating Vilniaus Šilumos Tinklai to airline Air Lituanica. The MP has asked to investigate whether the loan was issued la...

Belarus has always been and will remain Russia's military ally, despite Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's recent statements about Russia's continuing aggression in Ukraine, says Vytis Jurkonis, a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius Universi...

A member of staff of Lithuanian state company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) has been accused of spying for Belarus. A second person, also suspected of spying, is still under investigation, Lithuania's law enforcement said on Monday.

Espionage charges have been brought against a Lithuanian citizen, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Former Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas was on Friday questioned as a special witness in an ongoing investigation into alleged public procurement-related corruption involving ministry staff.

The prosecutor in the so-called Ministry of the Interior case in Lithuania has decided not to demand the arrest of the suspects who subsequently received softer measures of suppression.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has refused to comment on the suitability of Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas to continue as interior minister. Meanwhile Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has asked the minister to stay on until investigation into corruption at the ministry is concluded.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas of the Order and Justice party says he has no intentions of resigning amid the corruption suspicions against former members of his political team.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has opened an investigation into suspected assistance to a foreign country to act against the Republic of Lithuania.

Lithuanian prosecutors have decided to drop suspicions against Dmitry Konoplyanik, the chief of the Belarusian Investigation Committee's Minsk Board, and his wife of attempting to smuggle munitions across the state border.

Lithuanian parliamentary opposition leader Andrius Kubilius demanded on Thursday that Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis be summoned to respond to reports that senior schoolchildren from Russian-language schools are allegedly taken to paramilitary camps in Russia.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has turned to Russian prosecutors, asking to extradite Romas Zamolskis, a suspect in a number of crimes committed in Lithuania. Zamolskis was recently detained in Yekaterinburg.

The Prosecutor General's Office announced on Thursday that the decision to terminate the pre-trial investigation into the actions of Bank Snoras bankruptcy administrator Neil Cooper was both lawful and legal.

During her meeting on Tuesday with top officials of the Prosecutor General's Office and chief regional prosecutors, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė pointed out lengthy pre-trial investigations, underlined their quality and the need for prosecutors' offices to modernise.

Attempts by Russia's law enforcement agencies to re-open criminal prosecution against Lithuanian nationals who avoided military service in the Soviet army in 1990-1991 has no legal basis, says international law expert Erika Leonaitė.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has ended its pre-trial investigation into actions of Neil Cooper, the outgoing administrator of the bankrupt bank Snoras, after finding no signs of criminal activity.

Russia's attempts to prosecute persons who refused to serve in the Soviet army is absurd, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says.