According to BNS sources, the investigators also target Viktor Zivialo and Antonij Zivialo, the shareholders of all three companies, whom court allowed to be detained on Wednesday.
The Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) has exposed an organized group with 11 members, which generated more than 160 million litas (EUR 46.4m) in proceeds from illegal trade in oil products and laundered this money. Moreover, the group used 47 companies registered in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Cyprus to hide illegal activities, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
For example, one Lithuanian company generating nearly 200 million litas in annual sales would pay less than 100,000 litas in taxes to the state per year, the ministry said.
As part of the international operation, the FNTT investigators made searches in Lithuania. Around 5 million litas in cash was found and seized from homes of suspected group members.
