In the case of massive corruption in the State Plant Protection Service, 48-year-old Vilnius resident Marjanas Taraškevičius-Marekas, dubbed the new "smuggling king", remains under arrest - the Vilnius Regional Court has extended his strictest pre-trial detention for another 3 months.
This was confirmed to the news portal Lrytas on Thursday by M. Taraškevičius' lawyer Gediminas Bukauskas.
In the investigation into record-breaking million-dollar …
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In the case of massive corruption in the State Plant Protection Service, 48-year-old Vilnius resident Marjanas Taraškevičius-Marekas, dubbed the new "smuggling king", remains under arrest - the Vilnius Regional Court has extended his strictest pre-trial detention for another 3 months.
This was confirmed to the news portal Lrytas on Thursday by M. Taraškevičius' lawyer Gediminas Bukauskas.
In the investigation into record-breaking million-dollar …