Lithuanian prosecutors have notified their Russian colleagues about the suspicions brought against Raimondas Baranauskas and Vladimir Antonov, top executives and shareholders of the bankrupt bank Snoras hiding in Russia whom they intend to put on trial in absentia.
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After a continued operation to probe possession of child pornography, Lithuanian police has launched 47 investigations, the Criminal Police Bureau said on Friday.
Lithuanian prosecutors have refused to open an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against MP Mykolas Majauskas after failing to find a superiority link between the politician and the young female who had anonymously accused him.
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals will Friday pronounce its finding in connection to conviction of former Lithuanian Air Force officer and a Russian citizen on spying charges.
Lithuanian MP Mykolas Majauskas, a member of the opposition conservative group accused of sexual misconduct, says he is drafting an address to the Prosecutor General's Office over slander.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the scandal surrounding MP Mykolas Majauskas, who has been publicly accused of sexual misconduct, seems to be, at least for now, a family matter.
Raimundas Baranauskas and Vladimir Antonov, former managers and shareholders of Snoras, a Lithuanian bank that went bankrupt in late 2011, are planned to be tried in Lithuania in absentia as they are hiding in Russia.
The top executive of the Lithuanian publishing house that translated a book by Russian journalist Galina Sapozhnikova will stand charges for public approval of and denial of Soviet crimes.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis of the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) sees no reasons for the head of the Central Electoral Commission, Laura Matjošaitytė, to resign, adding she "is working properly."
Former Lithuanian judge and former MP Neringa Venckienė has been detained in Chicago, the United States, at Lithuania's request for refusing to obey a court order to hand over her niece to her mother.
A Vilnius court on Wednesday sentenced Eric Georgoulakos, an American national, to three years and a half in prison for raping a young woman, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
Verners Lūsis has resigned as CEO of LDZ Logistics, a subsidiary of Latvijas Dzelzcels (Latvian Railways), after he was detained in Lithuania last week at Poland's request.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday decided to open an investigation into media reports about the business owned by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, and his family members.
More than 150 witnesses have been interviewed in the January 13 attempted coup case in the Vilnius court, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
The Vilnius Regional Court ruled on Wednesday that there were no grounds for opening a pre-trial investigation regarding statements by Rūta Vanagaitė, an author and public relations specialist, about Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.