- November 16, 2025
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, [..]
More than two years after a Ukrainian woman was stopped at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport during an INTERPOL operation with 116 baby tortoises concealed in her luggage, the internationally protected species [..]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Riga (Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithuania) mobilised during the last two days 624 law enforcement officers to perform searches and arrests across 16 countries. [..]
Lithuanian law enforcement officials have detained two Spanish nationals and charged them with planning to carry out an act of terrorism in the country, prosecutors announced on Tuesday. The Prosecutor-General’s [..]
The Latvian police in cooperation with foreign colleagues, including the Spanish National Police, have arrested one of the best-known Latvian organized crime leaders and several members of his gang, the [..]
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