Prosecutor General's Office

Family members of four people who died in the Soviet army's crackdown on unarmed civilians in Vilnius in January 1991 have filed a civil lawsuit against Mikhail Gorbachev, the then Soviet leader.

Lawyers representing Algirdas Paleckis, a former Lithuanian politician who was found guilty of and sentenced to six years in prison for spying for Russia in late July, have appealed the court ruling with the Court of Appeal.

Lithuania's Prosecutor General Evaldas Pasilis has launched a pre-trial investigation into crimes against humanity under a complaint by Belarusian citizen Maxim Khoroshin, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.

A victim of the Belarusian regime's force structures has asked Lithuanian prosecutors to launch a pre-trial investigation into torture and recognize it as a crime against humanity.

Lithuania's Financial Crime Investigation Service has granted the status of a special witness to another member of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' team, adviser on health issues Jonas Kairys, as part of an ongoing investigation into the procurement of rapid coronavirus tests.

A court in southern Lithuania has this week slapped fines of 7,500 euros on two men for illegally crossing the state border, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday.

Aldas Rusevicius, board chairman and CEO of construction company Kauno Tiltai, was on Tuesday detained as part of the ongoing corruption investigation, Elena Martinoniene, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General's Office, told BNS on Wednesday.

Mantas Zalatorius, president of the Association of Lithuanian Banks, who was on Tuesday detained on suspicion of influence peddling, was released later in the day following his interrogation, his lawyer said.

Valdas Sutkus, the president of the Lithuanian Business Confederation (LVK), and Mantas Zalatorius, the president of the Lithuanian Banks' Association (LBA), and another four people were detained by law-enforcement officials on Tuesday on suspicions of unlawful influence on legislative processes.

Lithuanian Transport Minister Jaroslav Narkevic turned on Friday to prosecutors over an alleged libel, the Transport Ministry said.

A total of 11 people, including prosecutors, an officer of the country's Financial Crime Investigation Service and a lawyer, have been detained in Lithuania as part of a pre-trial investigation into various corruption crimes, the prosecution service said on Wednesday.

Prosecutors from the regional prosecutor's office in Lithuania's western city of Klaipeda said on Friday they had launched a pre-trial investigation into violations at Klaipeda University Hospital.

Vytautas Bakas, former chairman of Lithuania's parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, who has information on alleged unlawful collection of information by the State Security Department, says he will seek an parliamentary investigation into the information provided by an intelligen...

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has expressed his trust in law enforcement and intelligence services and warned that the dissemination of unsubstantiated information might pose threat to statehood.

A pre-trial investigation against Algirdas Paleckis, a Lithuanian politician suspected of spying for Russia, has been completed, Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said on Tuesday.

Thirty-six people were granted whistleblower status in Lithuania in the first year since the respective legislation took effect, but none of them received a financial reward for the information they provided, according to figures released by prosecutors on Tuesday.

Vladimir Romanov, Ukio Bankas' former majority shareholder, and 12 other people are suspected of squandering over 40 million euros in assets of the Lithuanian bank that collapsed seven years ago, prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court of Lithuania's recent ruling imposing search restrictions involving judges will impede investigation of corruption crimes, Zydrunas Bartkus, head of the country's Special Investigation Service, warned on Tuesday.

The case of theft of clients' personal information and photos from the Kaunas-based cosmetic surgery clinic Grozio Chirurgija in Lithuania is still in the hands of prosecutors after the court returned it early this year as prosecutors are mulling change the qualification of the offense.

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said on Tuesday it had handed over to court the case of the non-transparent issuance of a visa.