Law on Criminal Intelligence

Lithuania’s parliament has decided that current laws allow manipulation of statements based on secret criminal intelligence and that disclosure of such information should be considered a crime.

Existing Lithuanian laws allow for political manipulation using classified criminal intelligence reports, an investigation by the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs has revealed.

The Lithuanian Seimas' Committee on Legal Affairs will carry out a probe into the use of criminal intelligence information.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday that the country’s political leaders have a duty to act to prevent embezzlement of public funds after receiving information from law-enforcement bodies, but did not disclose how many ministers might not receive her approval after her inaugurat...