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Ambassador Stephen D. Mull to Meet with Chief Commissioner Romualdas Boreika, Director of Financial Crimes Investigation Service

December 10, 2003

Media event: Reporters and photographers are invited to a media event at 15.00h on Wednesday, December 10, at the Lithuanian Financial Crimes Investigation Service, Šermukšnių 3, Vilnius.

On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 3 p.m Ambassador Stephen D. Mull and other representatives of the U.S. Embassy will meet with Chief Commissioner Romualdas Boreika, Director of Financial Crimes Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior (FCIS), Šermukšnių 3, Vilnius. A small ceremony is planned to inaugurate a secure computer link.

The meeting was arranged to discuss the Lithuanian FCIS progress in the field of money laundering prevention.  Issues addressed in this meeting will be:

- International acts of legislation that regulate prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism and their practical application in the Republic of Lithuania;

- Cooperation possibilities with foreign law enforcement agencies and international organizations working in the field of money laundering and terrorism financing prevention;

- FCIS cooperation with respectable US agencies; 

- Training needs of the Lithuanian FCIS.

The Lithuanian FCIS has been actively cooperating with U.S. institutions in charge of money laundering, terrorism financing prevention, and investigation of financial crimes. 

The Lithuanian FCIS is exchanging information with the U.S. agencies about suspicious financial transactions and carries out joint investigations of money laundering and squandering cases, closely cooperates with the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.