This evidence-led archive spans the final judgments in the Kražiai and Ieva Strazdauskaitė murders, the January 13 accountability case, the Medininkai and Rainiai massacres, organized crime and the murder of Ričardas Mikutavičius.
Files are placed here only when reliable sources document final findings of criminal responsibility.
Panevėžys organized-crime prosecutor Gintautas Sereika was murdered outside his home. Arūnas Varnas was convicted and sentenced to 11 years.
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Four women were killed over three days. Bekintis received life imprisonment, and the judgment became final without appeal.
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Three men were convicted of the murder; final review left two life sentences and a 19-year term in force.
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Fourteen civilians were killed and more than 800 injured. Lithuanian courts convicted 67 former Soviet officials and service members.
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Four men were convicted and the organizer received life imprisonment, while part of the important collection remains missing.
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Seventy-six political prisoners were killed near Telšiai. Petras Raslanas received a genocide conviction and life sentence in absentia.
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Seven Lithuanian officers were killed and one survived. Four former Riga OMON members received life sentences, three of them in absentia.
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Lingis was murdered after reporting on organized crime. Four defendants were convicted in 1994; this file distinguishes the verdicts from the later execution and human-rights criticism of the review process.
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“Solved / adjudicated” records a completed judicial finding. It does not mean every sentence was enforced, every defendant was physically present or every wider historical claim was tested.
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Prosecutors and courts found that the organized group selected her Audi A7 for robbery; there was no evidence that she knew the offenders or had links to criminal activity.
She left her parents' home in Plungė for Vilnius on 5 March 2017 and disappeared during the journey.
Leonas, Karolis and Mantas Bieliauskas were convicted of the murder and related offences.
Leonas and Karolis Bieliauskas received life imprisonment; Mantas Bieliauskas received a 19-year term. The Supreme Court rejected the cassation appeals before it in July 2021.
Yes. Criminal responsibility for the murder was adjudicated through Lithuania's Supreme Court, while related defendants received separate sentences for associated offences.
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