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Following a lengthy and complex investigation, officers from the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office, together with prosecutors from the Vilnius General Prosecutor’s Office and the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Corruption, in close cooperation with the police officers, identified and detained to the leaders. and members of an organized criminal group that possessed large quantities of drugs, organized them, and smuggled them into various foreign countries.
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 organizers of this organized criminal group, the leaders accused of drug trafficking episodes, is associated with the year 2010, when in France, Guadeloupe (Caribbean), law enforcement officers of the French Republic in cooperation with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and officers of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office, the yacht was detained.
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385 kg of cocaine were found and seized. Several people were convicted in France for this crime, one of them a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania and the other a citizen of the Republic of Ukraine. 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. During the week of 2006, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Poland and the Kingdom of Spain were simultaneously arrested.
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 – citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who belonged to said group – were arrested at the crime scene. .
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During the searches, very large quantities of cultivated drugs – cannabis, as well as tools and equipment for drug production – were found and removed from the aforementioned drug laboratories. Large quantities of cannabis drugs were found to be routinely cultivated in the aforementioned drug laboratories.
Operation in Lithuania
In total, officers from the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office and the Lithuanian Police Anti-Terrorism Operations Team ARAS carried out 24 searches of the dwelling and auxiliary premises and cars of the above-mentioned suspects in Lithuania.
During the search, tens of thousands of euros in cash, firearms and ammunition of various caliber, drugs, forged identity documents and other items banned from civil circulation were found and seized. 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.
“The fight against organized crime, especially its most dangerous forms, is one of the priority areas of activity of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office, to which special attention is paid. The large-scale 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, ”says Rolandas Kiškis, Head of the Criminal Police Office of Lithuania.
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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