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The group disposed of large quantities of drugs, organized them, and smuggled them into various foreign countries. This international operation is the result of the efficient and determined work of the international law enforcement community, reports the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office.
The basis of the international arrest operation was a large-scale investigation initiated and carried out by agents of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office into very serious and serious crimes committed by members of an organized criminal group in Lithuania and other European countries. During the international operation, nine suspects were arrested in Lithuania, Poland and Spain, including the leader and the most active members of an organized criminal group.
The investigation revealed that a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania had formed a criminal group, under whose leadership, he organized international drug smuggling and trafficking. Various vehicles were used to commit crimes: yachts, trucks, cars. The organized criminal group committed crimes in a systematic and profitable manner under a special conspiracy and, according to the available data, is involved in the organization of large-scale smuggling of at least 1,450 kg of various types of drugs (cocaine, hashish, cannabis).
It is worth mentioning that one of the drug smuggling episodes attributed to the leaders of this organized criminal group is linked to an event in 2010 in France, in Guadeloupe (Caribbean), by French law enforcement officers in cooperation with the Control of Drugs of U.S. Administration (DEA) and agents of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office, the yacht was detained. It contained 385 kg of cocaine. Several people were convicted of this crime in France, one of them a Lithuanian citizen and the other a Ukrainian citizen. The 2010 event has had a profound effect on our society. An investigation by the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office found that the real organizers of a crime committed many years ago were members of an internationally crushed organized criminal group, and only the perpetrators were arrested and convicted in France.
2021 last January. An arrest operation was carried out simultaneously in Lithuania, Poland and Spain during the week. During the operation, the leader of an organized criminal group was arrested in the Kingdom of Spain, drug laboratories were unmasked in Spain and the suspects – Lithuanian citizens who belonged to said group – were arrested at the crime scene.
During the searches, large quantities of cultivated drugs – cannabis, as well as tools and equipment for drug production – were found in the aforementioned drug laboratories. Large quantities of cannabis were found to be systematically cultivated in the aforementioned drug laboratories.
Operation in Lithuania
In total, officers from the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office and the Lithuanian Police Aras Counter-Terrorism Operations Team carried out 24 searches of the above-mentioned suspects at the living and auxiliary premises in Lithuania and on their cars. During the search, tens of thousands of euros were found, firearms, ammunition of different caliber, drugs, forged identity documents and other items prohibited in civil circulation. The Republic of Lithuania has issued European arrest warrants against three detainees.
The most severe punishment that can be imposed on members of an organized group is imprisonment for up to fifteen years.
According to Rolandas Kiškis, head of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office, the fight against organized crime, especially in its most dangerous forms, is one of the priority areas of activity of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office, to which it lends itself special attention. The extensive investigation is one of the examples of close and successful inter-institutional and international cooperation to prevent and neutralize dangerous organized criminal groups operating in Lithuania and abroad.
The pre-trial investigation is organized and controlled by prosecutors from the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office with extensive experience in such cases. Prosecutors are satisfied with the highly effective and constructive cooperation with Lithuanian and foreign colleagues, emphasizing high professionalism and efficiency.
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