The Lithuanian Desk is headed by Margarita Šniutytė-Daugėlienė, who is the National Member for Lithuania since August 2019.
In 2021, the Lithuanian Desk was involved in 233 new cases, 38 coordination meetings, 3 coordination centres, and 10 joint investigation teams.
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.
| 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 |
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