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Although the material of the preliminary investigation transmitted to the court is made public, the police do not reveal the sex, year of birth or place of residence of the suspects. They are only reported to be citizens of the Republic of Lithuania.
It also does not reveal when the citizens were detained, when an investigation was opened and when they may have committed crimes.
Although the report warns the Vilnius police to beware of scammers, it does not specify the exact way the detained group acted.
The Vilnius County Police only report that during the searches foreign bank payment cards were found, their data sufficient to initiate financial transactions, devices with subsequently detected identification data of users of foreign payment instruments (bank payment card data ), pornographic articles depicting children, drugs – cocaine, cannabis.
During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that the suspects in the online stores paid for goods, car rental services, which they paid for with foreign money, through the illegal use of data from foreign payment instruments; forged documents; foreign property looted from apartments, vehicles and shops; fraudulently acquired foreign property, as well as illicit possession of drugs and child pornography.
Vilnius County Officers of the 1st Division of the Criminal Police Property Crimes Investigation Board of the Chief Commissariat of Police, investigating crimes in the electronic space, carried out a pre-trial investigation into possible criminal offenses provided for in Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. (production of a counterfeit electronic payment instrument, counterfeiting of a genuine electronic payment instrument or illegal possession of an electronic payment instrument or its data); 215 p. (illegal use of an electronic payment instrument or your data); 182 p. (fraud); 300 p. (falsification of a document or possession of a forged document); 259 p. (illicit possession of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for distribution purposes); 178 p. (Stole); BK 309 p. (possession of pornographic objects depicting children).
Month of January. The prosecutor of the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Office of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office referred the case to court.
The police remind you that your electronic bank details and passwords or your bank card details cannot be disclosed to anyone.
Law enforcement or bank employees never ask for such data.
The law provides prison sentences of up to six years for these crimes.
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