{"id":16658,"date":"2026-07-17T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/?post_type=news&#038;p=16658"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:03:02","slug":"latest-review-finds-that-legal-mechanisms-are-being-exploited-to-facilitate-trafficking-in-human-beings-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/en\/naujienos\/latest-review-finds-that-legal-mechanisms-are-being-exploited-to-facilitate-trafficking-in-human-beings-in-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review Finds That Legal Mechanisms Are Being Exploited to Facilitate Trafficking in Human Beings in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-content\">\n<p>Trafficking in human beings in Lithuania is taking on new&nbsp;forms, with perpetrators increasingly exploiting lawful migration and employment mechanisms. The Review of the Situation in Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in the Republic of Lithuania in 2025, prepared by the Office of the&nbsp;Parliamentary&nbsp;Ombudspersons, reveals that the number of officially&nbsp;identified&nbsp;victims of trafficking in human beings almost tripled last year. However, the identification of victims&nbsp;remains&nbsp;challenging, and significant shortcomings continue to be&nbsp;observed&nbsp;in the provision of&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;to victims and in the prevention of trafficking in human beings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Number of Identified Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings Nearly Tripled in Lithuania<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, 62 persons were&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;as victims of trafficking in human beings&nbsp;in the course of&nbsp;pre-trial investigations in Lithuania. This was the highest number recorded in six years and almost three times the number recorded in 2024, when 22 victims were&nbsp;identified. All 62 persons were exploited in Lithuania, while seven of them were also exploited in Poland and Hungary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 62 victims, 49 were men, 12 were women and one was a child. Most of the victims were nationals of third countries, including Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, the&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;and Kyrgyzstan. The majority were subjected to forced&nbsp;labour&nbsp;in the transport and construction sectors and in manufacturing companies.&nbsp;2&nbsp;women were subjected to sexual exploitation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5&nbsp;Lithuanian nationals were also&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;as victims:&nbsp;1&nbsp;was exploited for the commission of criminal offences involving the distribution of narcotic substances through parcel lockers,&nbsp;1&nbsp;was subjected to forced&nbsp;labour, and&nbsp;3&nbsp;were exploited for the provision of services, including begging.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-9-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-9-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-9-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-9-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-9-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-9.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Number of Persons Recognised as Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings During Pre-Trial Investigations, by Sex, 2020\u20132025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>13&nbsp;new pre-trial investigations into trafficking in human beings were opened last year, while the total number of pre-trial investigations conducted increased from 26 in 2024 to 37 in 2025. The Review draws attention to the increasing number of pre-trial investigations concerning the exploitation of persons under the age of 29 and other vulnerable individuals for the commission of criminal offences, including theft and the distribution of narcotic and&nbsp;psychotropic substances in European Union Member States. One pre-trial investigation was opened to&nbsp;establish&nbsp;whether a woman had been exploited for the purpose of surrogacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the examination of&nbsp;cases&nbsp;related to trafficking in human beings and exploitation, 11 natural persons &#8211;&nbsp;2&nbsp;women and&nbsp;9&nbsp;men &#8211; and&nbsp;1&nbsp;legal person were convicted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victims&nbsp;were drawn into situations of exploitation in a variety of ways, most commonly through personal contacts, companies providing employment intermediation services, and social media. The most&nbsp;frequently&nbsp;used means of overcoming or controlling a person&#8217;s will were deception and the abuse of a position of vulnerability. In some cases, physical and psychological violence and threats were also used.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although only&nbsp;2&nbsp;women were officially identified as victims of sexual exploitation, the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office has&nbsp;observed&nbsp;an increase in cases involving the sexual exploitation of foreign nationals. In such cases, persons who have obtained temporary residence permits in Lithuania are&nbsp;subsequently&nbsp;exploited in prostitution in Lithuania or transported to other EU Member States for the same purpose. Given Lithuania&#8217;s economic and geopolitical situation, these trends are likely to persist&nbsp;in the near future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Labour\u00a0Law and Migration Mechanisms Are Being Manipulated<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Data provided by various institutions\u00a0indicate\u00a0that the methods used by traffickers are becoming increasingly subtle. Lawful migration mechanisms, including employment agencies and subcontracting arrangements, are being\u00a0used more\u00a0frequently.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreigners&nbsp;are provided with misleading information about their legal status, while complex migration procedures and document forgery are used to manipulate them and keep victims in a state of legal uncertainty and dependence on their employer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-8-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-8-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-8-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-8-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-8-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Facebook-horizontalus-8.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Number of Persons Recognised as Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings During Pre-Trial Investigations, by Nationality and Purpose of Exploitation, 2025. Some persons experienced more than one form of exploitation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the transport sector, which employs a large number of foreign nationals, working hours, overtime and night work are frequently not&nbsp;recorded.&nbsp;Requirements concerning working time and rest periods are not&nbsp;complied with, and employees are placed on unpaid leave, allegedly at their own request, thereby enabling employers to avoid paying both wages to employees and taxes to the State.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies&nbsp;operating&nbsp;in Lithuania recruit workers abroad who do not speak Lithuanian, lack sufficient knowledge of their&nbsp;rights&nbsp;and do not trust public authorities. These circumstances increase their vulnerability and reduce the likelihood that victims will seek&nbsp;assistance. According to experts, cross-border schemes involving the exploitation of workers are likely to expand in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, 344 persons were&nbsp;identified&nbsp;in 2025 as having worked illegally or carried out undeclared self-employed activities in Lithuania. According to the State&nbsp;Labour&nbsp;Inspectorate, foreign nationals who have suffered abuse by employers in Lithuania&nbsp;generally do&nbsp;not perceive themselves as victims of exploitation or trafficking in human beings and instead regard their situation as involving violations of&nbsp;labour&nbsp;law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Shortage of Qualified Specialists and\u00a0Assistance for Victims<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliamentary&nbsp;Ombudsperson Dr Erika&nbsp;Leonaite\u0307&nbsp;emphasises&nbsp;that investigations into trafficking in human beings and exploitation for forced&nbsp;labour&nbsp;are particularly complex because&nbsp;they require proof of numerous circumstances, including the subjugation of the victim&#8217;s will, the acquisition of control over the victim, and the abuse of the victim&#8217;s position of vulnerability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt least a certain degree of\u00a0specialisation\u00a0among police investigators and judges hearing trafficking in human\u00a0beings\u00a0cases\u00a0is\u00a0essential\u00a0in order to\u00a0develop clear and consistent practice and to ensure that these crimes are investigated effectively. The tactics used by exploiters and\u00a0the methods\u00a0of recruitment are constantly changing. Difficulties therefore arise when an investigator who may be dealing with this\u00a0type\u00a0of crime for the first time is\u00a0required\u00a0to conduct a pre-trial investigation.\u00a0Specialisation\u00a0among officers is also essential to ensure that victims are properly informed, as practice shows that they are\u00a0frequently\u00a0not provided with the necessary information,\u201d says Dr\u00a0Leonaite\u0307.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erika-Leonaite_Seimo-kanceliarijos-nuotrauka_autore-Ula-Liskeviciute-9-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erika-Leonaite_Seimo-kanceliarijos-nuotrauka_autore-Ula-Liskeviciute-9-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erika-Leonaite_Seimo-kanceliarijos-nuotrauka_autore-Ula-Liskeviciute-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erika-Leonaite_Seimo-kanceliarijos-nuotrauka_autore-Ula-Liskeviciute-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erika-Leonaite_Seimo-kanceliarijos-nuotrauka_autore-Ula-Liskeviciute-9-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erika-Leonaite_Seimo-kanceliarijos-nuotrauka_autore-Ula-Liskeviciute-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Erika-Leonaite_Seimo-kanceliarijos-nuotrauka_autore-Ula-Liskeviciute-9.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Parliamentary Ombudsperson Dr Erika Leonait\u0117, photo by \u016ala Li\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although various training courses and other activities aimed at strengthening professional competence in the field of trafficking in human beings were&nbsp;organised&nbsp;in 2025, specialists continue to lack knowledge of the different&nbsp;forms of trafficking and of how victims should be&nbsp;identified. They are not sufficiently familiar with the latest trends, and victims are therefore often&nbsp;identified&nbsp;too late. There is also a lack of continuous professional training.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State&nbsp;Labour&nbsp;Inspectorate, pre-trial investigation bodies and courts lack specialists, investigators,&nbsp;prosecutors&nbsp;and judges&nbsp;specialising&nbsp;specifically in&nbsp;cases of&nbsp;trafficking in human beings and exploitation for&nbsp;labour&nbsp;and services. This makes it more difficult to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;these criminal offences and distinguish them from other crimes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, persons exploited for the commission of criminal offences are sometimes themselves held criminally liable because they were not identified as victims of trafficking in human beings during the pre-trial investigation. Exploitation for forced&nbsp;labour&nbsp;also sometimes&nbsp;remains&nbsp;unidentified because the circumstances are assessed solely as violations of&nbsp;labour&nbsp;law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Review notes that&nbsp;allocating&nbsp;greater resources to the work of pre-trial investigation bodies on trafficking in human&nbsp;beings&nbsp;cases would make investigations more effective and enable the identification of an even greater number of victims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A need was also&nbsp;identified&nbsp;to provide&nbsp;additional, targeted funding to the State&nbsp;Labour&nbsp;Inspectorate&nbsp;in order to&nbsp;ensure sufficient human and administrative resources for combating trafficking in human beings involving exploitation for&nbsp;labour&nbsp;and services. Strengthening the competence of investigators and judges in this field and introducing at least partial&nbsp;specialisation&nbsp;would also make a significant contribution to an effective response to trafficking in human beings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since a substantial proportion of trafficking in human beings&nbsp;remains&nbsp;undetected, the&nbsp;organisation&nbsp;of&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;to victims is also adversely affected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to non-governmental&nbsp;organisations&nbsp;providing assistance, law enforcement officers do not refer&nbsp;a sufficient number of&nbsp;victims to these&nbsp;organisations. Persons&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;as victims of trafficking in human beings are&nbsp;generally informed&nbsp;of their rights and the possibilities of obtaining&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;only through a general notice provided in Lithuanian. They are not provided with&nbsp;specialised&nbsp;information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, victims of trafficking in human beings are not provided, in a language they understand, with the annex to the protocol explaining victims&#8217; rights approved by the Prosecutor General. This gives grounds to conclude that the right of all victims of trafficking in human&nbsp;beings to be comprehensively informed of their rights and the&nbsp;possibilities&nbsp;of obtaining&nbsp;specialised&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;is not currently being fully guaranteed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insufficient interinstitutional cooperation and inadequate coordination of actions in this field&nbsp;remained&nbsp;the principal challenges to ensuring the effective prevention of trafficking in human beings. This problem is particularly&nbsp;evident&nbsp;in&nbsp;the cooperation&nbsp;between institutions,&nbsp;municipalities&nbsp;and non-governmental&nbsp;organisations. In 2025, information was not shared&nbsp;sufficiently&nbsp;and actions were not properly coordinated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome municipalities still do not\u00a0identify\u00a0trafficking in human beings as a problem relevant to them. Consequently, they do not see a need to cooperate and do not undertake preventive measures. Nevertheless, last year non-governmental\u00a0organisations\u00a0provided assistance to\u00a0victims of trafficking in human beings in every county of Lithuania, and these\u00a0organisations\u00a0see a substantial need for interinstitutional cooperation. Therefore, even where it may appear that trafficking in human beings is not taking place in a particular municipality, it\u00a0remains\u00a0essential to develop dialogue with pre-trial investigation bodies, non-governmental\u00a0organisations\u00a0and trade unions, including at county level. For victims to report the exploitation they have experienced, they must not only know where to seek\u00a0assistance\u00a0but must also be confident that they will receive the necessary support and protection,\u201d says\u00a0Parliamentary\u00a0Ombudsperson Dr Jolita Miliuvien\u0117.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Parliamentary&nbsp;Ombudsperson notes that municipal commissions for coordinating the fight against trafficking in human beings have been&nbsp;established&nbsp;in fewer than one third of Lithuania&#8217;s municipalities, and only six of these commissions publicly provide information about their activities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-03-06_Lietuvos-teise-2026_foto-Lukas-Kodis-31-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-03-06_Lietuvos-teise-2026_foto-Lukas-Kodis-31-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-03-06_Lietuvos-teise-2026_foto-Lukas-Kodis-31-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-03-06_Lietuvos-teise-2026_foto-Lukas-Kodis-31-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-03-06_Lietuvos-teise-2026_foto-Lukas-Kodis-31-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-03-06_Lietuvos-teise-2026_foto-Lukas-Kodis-31-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Parliamentary\u00a0Ombudsperson Dr Jolita Miliuvien\u0117, photo by Lukas Kodis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Responsible Authorities Are Recommended to Strengthen Cooperation and Professional Competence\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Parliamentary&nbsp;Ombudspersons submitted recommendations to the Government, ministries, the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office, the Police Department, municipalities and other responsible bodies with a view to strengthening the fight against trafficking in human beings, developing interinstitutional cooperation, and increasing the&nbsp;specialisation&nbsp;of pre-trial investigation officers, judges and other professionals in the field of trafficking in human beings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recommendations place particular emphasis on the need to improve the mechanism for collecting,&nbsp;storing&nbsp;and processing data. An improved mechanism should help ensure that all institutions have access to consistent information and are able to take decisions based on&nbsp;accurate&nbsp;data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information for victims of trafficking in human beings: <a href=\"https:\/\/prekybazmonemis.lt\/en\/pagalba\/\">https:\/\/prekybazmonemis.lt\/en\/pagalba\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":16624,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"keyword":[],"class_list":["post-16658","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Latest Review Finds That Legal Mechanisms Are Being Exploited to Facilitate Trafficking in Human Beings in Lithuania - Seimo kontrolieri\u0173 \u012fstaiga<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lrski.lt\/en\/naujienos\/latest-review-finds-that-legal-mechanisms-are-being-exploited-to-facilitate-trafficking-in-human-beings-in-lithuania\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Latest Review Finds That Legal Mechanisms Are Being Exploited to Facilitate Trafficking in Human Beings in Lithuania - Seimo kontrolieri\u0173 \u012fstaiga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Trafficking in human beings in Lithuania is taking on new&nbsp;forms, with perpetrators increasingly exploiting lawful migration and employment mechanisms. 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