Mikheil Zamtaradze was sentenced “for stealing, as part of an organised group, 19th-century publications valued at 606,000 euros that have high cultural and historical value,“ judge Mindaugas Ražanskas told reporters at the Vilnius City District Court.
The Georgian national was arrested in Belgium in 2023 and transferred to Lithuania later the same year.
He admitted stealing 17 books, including works by Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol, from the Vilnius University Library in May 2023.
He claimed the man had also provided him with a fake ID for entering the university, as well as the forgeries to be placed at the library in place of the stolen works.
The culprit worked as part of a group operating across Lithuania, Poland, France, Switzerland, and Georgia, Lithuanian prosecutors said.
The European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation coordinated legal actions across European countries in November 2023 after similar thefts from libraries in France, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Switzerland.
Vilnius University has now enacted additional security measures to prevent similar thefts, VU chancellor Raimundas Balciunaitis told AFP in a written response.
“Access to rare documents will be granted only after prior agreement with the staff in charge,“ he said.
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