In Lithuania, they offer to punish for damage to infrastructure imprisonment up to 15 years

< IMG SRC = "/Uploads/Blogs/A2/11/IB-FQMF601TF_F0593115.jpg" Alt = "In Lithuania, they are offered to punish infrastructure in imprisonment up to 15 years"/> ~ ~ ~ < P > The Ministry of Justice of Lithuania suggested criminal liability for the task of harming critically important infrastructure, providing punishment in the form of imprisonment of up to 15 years.

~ ~ < p > reports “European Truth” with reference to LRT.

< P > According to the Minister of Justice Rimantas Motcus, Lithuania should be better prepared from a legal point of view to attempts to damage the underwater or other critically important infrastructure.

< P >< Br /> “From now on such crimes can be threatened with imprisonment for up to 15 years. The possibilities of criminal prosecution are also expanded, since such crimes are envisaged to investigate such crimes”, & ndash; noted in the Ministry of Justice.

< p > such punishment is provided in the law prepared by the Ministry of the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code.

< p >According to the proposed regulation, destruction, damage, or other disruption of a strategically important object that matters for national security, part of it, as well as its communication or information system for the purpose of causing damage to the interests of Lithuania will be punished by imprisonment for a term of two to eight years. 62 > 62 ~ 62 < P > In addition, persons who have committed such crimes by the task, instruction or request of a foreign state, its organization or representative, threatens punishment in the form of imprisonment from five to 15 years.

~ ~ ~ < P > Responsibility for these actions will apply to legal entities.

< P > The bill was presented and discussed at a meeting with representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office, the State Security Department, the Ministry of Defense and the Second Department of Operational Services. < P > The initiative appeared after several cases of underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea for the last half of the year.

< P > It has recently become known that Swedish police are investigating a probable sabotage act on Gotland Island, which was discovered on Sunday.

< P > Recall that in mid -January, NATO has created a new mission to supervise infrastructure safety in the Baltic Sea after a series of incidents with damage to underwater infrastructure and threats that is a “shadow fleet” tankers transporting Russian oil.