Criminal Police Bureau

Lithuania's Prosecutor General Evaldas Pasilis has launched a pre-trial investigation into crimes against humanity under a complaint by Belarusian citizen Maxim Khoroshin, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.

An attempt was made last fall to carry out a terror act in Vilnius, prosecutors said on Friday.

Lithuanian police have freed a Polish citizen who was kidnapped for ransom and also detained his kidnappers, the Criminal Police Bureau said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's police is carrying out an international investigation into police corruption in the country's second-largest city of Kaunas, prosecutor Vytautas Kukaitis told a press conference at the Police Department on Wednesday.

Lithuania's Criminal Police is carrying out a large-scale investigation into the sale of guns from the country's Weaponry Fund on the black market.

“I’ve always wanted to live a normal life. I’ve only slipped once and I understand my fault. But I’m not an animal. I wouldn’t do to an animal what they do to people”. This is not a line from a movie script. This was the reality for prisoners in Lithuanian prison in Pravieniskes that was revealed by...

Lithuanian police detained 19 people linked to an organized crime group during a large-scale operation in the country's second-biggest city of Kaunas on Tuesday.

After a continued operation to probe possession of child pornography, Lithuanian police has launched 47 investigations, the Criminal Police Bureau said on Friday.

Lithuanian police launched 41 investigations into the distribution of child pornography on the Internet as part of an operation carried out in October.

Evaldas Rimašauskas, a Lithuanian national accused of defrauding the US-based IT giants Facebook and Google of over 100 million US dollars via an email fraud scheme, on Wednesday was turned over to American officials, the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau confirmed to BNS.

International European law-enforcement institutions have called upon the society for help in finding the most wanted criminals, including Lithuanians.

The Kauno.diena.lt, Klaipeda.diena.lt and Diena.lt news sites were the target of a cyber attack on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau is conducting pre-trial investigations into DDoS attacks, i.e., Distributed Denial of Service.

In an international operation against sexual abuse of children, officers of the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau have established eight individuals distributing a large number of pornographic files featuring small children.