A company connected to a former Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer gained access to sensitive information about Lithuania’s port of Klaipėda after carrying out dredging works between 2016 and 2018.
According to an investigation by Ukraine’s Ukrainian Center for Journalistic Investigations, in collaboration with Lithuanian news site 15min.lt and Latvia’s TV3, Alexei Shkrab, a former FSB officer, reportedly headed the Russian company Baltgeotrest, a subsidiary of Lithuanian firm Green Line Shipping, which undertook the deepening of the port’s water area.
The works also extended to the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas terminal, giving the company detailed bathymetric data on seabed depth, relief, and the layout of underwater infrastructure.
The investigation further links other firms and former FSB officers to the network, including former FSB deputy director Viktor Komogorov, who held shares in Lithuanian company Energeja from 2012 until it ceased operations last year. Nanteja, another associated company, remains active in Lithuania.
Russian sources describe both firms as dealing in radioactive waste disposal and nuclear technologies, though their registered primary activity is chemical trading.
Both companies have ties to Russia’s International Fund for Sustainable Development, which predominantly employs former FSB personnel.
Lithuania’s State Security Department declined to comment on the journalistic findings, saying it had no “publicly available information on this matter.”
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