Strengthening capacities of the STT to investigate digital evidence

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Criminals more often use mobile devices and computers for communication, documents are stored in computers or servers. Therefore conducting pre-trial investigations territorial units of STT heavily relies on the capably of the Cyber Tasks Division of the IT department of STT to perform data extractions from electronic devices and IT forensic expertise.Experts of the Cyber Tasks Division uses tool set of the IT forensic hardware and software to conduct IT forensic (data extractions from different electronic devices, password bypassing, data recovery, data indexing and preparation for analysis and etc.). The budget allocated for the IT department and yearly expenditures obtaining licences for IT forensic tools which are in use and also acquiring new IT forensic tools needed forces to make compromises and does not allow to develop most efficient tool set for the IT forensic. The project objective is to keep up to date and improve detection and investigation abilities of the STT involved in the protection of the Union’s financial interests in Lithuania by obtaining the licence of IT forensic tool “Graykey” which is used as the one of the key components of STT IT forensic toolset.STT focuses on large-scale systemic corruption, which is closely connected with such criminal acts as fraud, money laundering and other similar financial crimes and which is more and more has transnational character.