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On October 26, the Director of the 2nd Department of Bilateral Relations of the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania Aurimas Taurantas met the Acting Chargé d’Affaires of the Ukraine Valeri Kerzhakov. The Foreign Ministry of Lithuania initiated the meeting. During the meeting the both sides exchanged their opinions on the bilateral co-operation in the field of crime prevention. Director Taurantas notified that Lithuania was ready to continue the active co-operation in that sphere and hoped that the Ukrainian institutions would work so the same way. The Director of the 2nd Department of Bilateral Relations expressed the necessity of sharing the information with the Lithuanian institutions about the flow of any illegal capital from the Ukraine to Lithuania every time the Ukrainian officers possessed the information of that kind. The agreement signed between the taxation institutions of the both states serves as the grounds for the active and close bilateral co-operation. The meeting between the diplomats of Lithuania and the Ukraine was held after the news agencies broadcasted the statements made by the Ukrainian officials, who said that the Baltic States served as a corridor for the flow of an illegal capital, whereas the main flow of dubious transactions originated from the Ukraine.