Lithuania

Lithuania

The Lithuanian Desk is headed by Margarita Šniutytė-Daugėlienė, who is the National Member for Lithuania since August 2019.

In 2022, the Lithuanian Desk was involved in 325 new cases, 69 coordination meetings, 1 coordination centre, and 16 joint investigation teams.

National Member

National Member

Jan MacLean
Margarita Šniutytė-Daugėlienė

Margarita Šniutytė-Daugėlienė is the National Member for Lithuania. Ms Šniutytė-Daugėlienė was elected Vice-President of Eurojust in June 2022. Ms Šniutytė-Daugėlienė began her legal career as a public prosecutor in the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of Klaipeda, where she worked for 13 years, dealing with international legal cooperation and analysis of prosecution policy, as well as conducting and supervising criminal investigations. In 2012, she was promoted to Chief Public Prosecutor of the 2nd Criminal Prosecution Division at the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of Klaipeda. In 2016, Ms Šniutytė-Daugėlienė was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General. In this capacity, she supervised international cooperation, training and protection of public interest activities, including the activities of the territorial prosecutor’s offices. During her professional career, Ms Šniutytė-Daugėlienė participated as an expert in a number of projects related to international cooperation matters and provided lectures on criminal law and international cooperation topics. Ms Šniutytė-Daugėlienė served as Contact Point for the European Judicial Network from 2011 to 2017.

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Casework

  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
New cases (total)
- of which initiating
- of which participating
136
63
73
112
37
75
120
40
80
146
59
87
233
88
145
325
98
227
Coordination meetings (initiating and/or participating) 23 18 20 24 38 69
Coordination centres (organising and/or participating) - - - 3 3 1
Joint investigation teams (newly signed and/or ongoing) 4 14 12 8 10 16

Case examples

Case example

Documents

13 June 2023|DOCUMENT
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