- March 25, 2026
In the OECD’s Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2026, which was launched on 24 March 2026 and which presents data on 37 OECD countries and 25 partner countries, Latvia and Lithuania [..]
Financial fraud is now one of the world’s most severe and rapidly evolving transnational crimes, with significant economic and human consequences. The 2026 INTERPOL Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment warns [..]
By Edgaras Savickas, LRT.lt. Companies registered in Lithuania have been used to help bypass international sanctions and gain access to Western technologies, according to the latest national security threat assessment [..]
By Jurga Tvaskienė, Jurgita Čeponytė, LRT Investigation Team, Benas Gerdžiūnas, LRT.lt. The LRT Investigations Team analysed the social media activity of the Nemunas Dawn populists and their leader, Remigijus Žemaitaitis, [..]
The Riga Regional Court on Monday overturned a first-instance court ruling, convicting former Latvijas Dzelzceļš (Latvian Railways, LDz) CEO Uģis Magonis and Estonian businessman Oleg Ossinovski of bribery, and sentencing [..]
According to LRT.lt, 29-year-old Benas Mikutavičius, suspected of killing two young women, was brought to Kaunas District Court on Sunday morning. The court approved the strictest preventive measure, ordering three [..]
The Criminal Police Division for the Investigation of Serious Crimes of the Kaunas County Police Headquarters (Kaunas County PHQ) is searching for Benas Mikutavičius (born 1996), who is suspected of [..]
MARRAKECH, Morocco – INTERPOL’s General Assembly has adopted a resolution addressing the growing threat posed by transnational scam centres – criminal hubs linked to large-scale fraud, human trafficking and abuse. [..]
By Christoph Sator and Jacqueline Melcher, dpa. The suspected mastermind of the Nord Stream pipeline explosions has been extradited from Italy to Germany, prosecutors confirmed on Thursday. The 49-year-old Ukrainian [..]
German police have searched properties across several states to investigate hundreds of emails threatening bomb attacks against schools, train stations and other public places, the Federal Criminal Police Office said [..]
More than 600 criminal proceedings are currently active in Latvia for violations of sanctions imposed on Russia, said Paulis Iljenkovs, Deputy Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for sanctions, [..]
Prosecutors have reached a plea agreement with three defendants in a criminal case involving an international value-added tax (VAT) fraud scheme, which has been approved by the Economic Affairs Court. [..]
By Niklas Treppner and Valeria Nickel, dpa. Brussels (dpa) – The European Commission has launched investigations into the German software firm SAP over “possible anticompetitive practices” related to software maintenance, [..]
By Indrė Makaraitytė, LRT Investigation Team, LRT.lt. A planned Russian military intelligence operation to send parcel bombs through international shipping companies was delayed after a recruited Lithuanian courier became lost [..]
A government commission in Lithuania will not investigate whether Skyllence – a company owned by businessman Gediminas Ziemelis’ aviation group Avia Solutions Group, which organized the evacuation of Lithuanian nationals [..]
Lithuania’s Financial Crime Investigation Service (FCIS) has detained Danas Paluckas, the brother of former Lithuanian Social Democratic Party leader Gintautas Paluckas, in Palanga, LNK News reported on Wednesday. Neither the [..]
Using various communication channels, scammers have defrauded residents of Latvia of around €10 million so far this year, according to information from the State Police. In the first half of [..]
Latvia’s State Revenue Service (VID) is launching disciplinary proceedings against several officials in the wake of a departmental probe into the failure to intercept a large shipment of heroin in [..]
Continuing the global fight against online piracy and associated crimes, a second phase of the INTERPOL-Stop Online Piracy (I-SOP) project has been launched. Cracking down on illegal online distribution platforms, [..]
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