"On suspicion of illegal activities and trying to swindle money out of the Lithuanian population, the Bank of Lithuania has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to launch a pre-trial investigation or otherwise prevent possibly illegal activities by Gold Line International," it said in a press release on Monday.
On its website, the company invites people, in the Lithuanian language, to pay a certain fee and then earn money depending on how many people are signed up and how much money they contribute.
"We can see obvious signs of a financial pyramid scheme. Therefore, we are asking the Prosecutor General's office to open a pre-trial investigation or take other measures of criminal prosecution in order to protect public interests," said Vilius Šapoka, director of the central bank's Financial Services and Markets Supervision Department.
At the start of this year, the central bank asked the Prosecutor General's office to look into the activities of another Russian financial pyramid scheme, MMM-2011.
