Lithuania prosecutes five people over 2024 parcel blasts
The Straits Times
VILNIUS, March 6 - Five people will stand trial in Lithuania for their suspected role in a case involving a series of exploding parcels in Europe in 2024, facing up to 10 years in prison if found guilty, the country's deputy general prosecutor said on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
VILNIUS, March 6 - Five people will stand trial in Lithuania for their suspected role in a case involving a series of exploding parcels in Europe in 2024, facing up to 10 years in prison if found guilty, the country's deputy general prosecutor said on Friday.
Lithuanian investigators have said the packages, carried by freight groups DHL and DPD, detonated in Germany, Britain and Poland as part of a Russian military intelligence plot seeking to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States.
The five suspects were citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania and were being accused of terrorism, Lithuania's Deputy General Prosecutor Arturas Urbelis told a press conference.
It was not immediately clear how the suspects pleaded to the charges, and a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office declined to comment.
Russia's defence ministry, in charge of military intelligence, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Moscow has previously denied accusations of targeting Western nations, often describing them as examples of Russophobia.
Governments and intelligence agencies in Europe have previously pointed to Moscow as the likely source of a series of fires and acts of sabotage aimed at destabilising allies of Ukraine.
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