Lithuanian prosecutors responding to EP inquiry about CIA prison allegations

"We can confirm that questions were received last week. Our answers are being prepared," the Public Relations Division of the Prosecutor General's Office told BNS.

During the visit in Lithuania in the end of April, the EP delegation said it had additional questions for Lithuanian prosecutors who maintain to have established that people were not detained illegally in Lithuania.

Rapporteur on the matter, Helene Flautre of the Greens Party, then said that the position of prosecutors was not entirely consistent with conclusions of the parliamentary probe.

During a parliamentary investigation in late 2009, two locations were identified in Vilnius and near the Lithuanian capital where premises might have been equipped for the detention of people, as well as a few CIA-linked flights to Vilnius and Palanga in 2003-2006.

According to the conclusions, people who testified to the committee denied the possibility of detention or interrogation of individuals in an Antaviliai complex, which currently serves as a training center of the State Security Department.

The findings also refer to two premises for the detainees, one of them featuring secrecy and perimeter security, with fragmented presence of officials of the Lithuanian State Security Department allowing uncontrolled operations of partner officials.

Deputy Prosecutor General Darius Raulušaitis then said that the investigation that was terminated last year revealed that "no such person was kept in detention."

Lithuania's top officials maintain that, amid US refusal to provide any information, Lithuania has done everything in its power to investigate the alleged operation of secret CIA centers on its soil.

Poland and Romania have also been accused of allowing the US to build secret detention centers for suspected terrorists.