Lithuanian prosecutors have opened a criminal case against Belarusian Catholic priest Juozas Bulka, the Lithuanian embassy in Minsk has said."The criminal case was opened, and Bulka was put on the wanted list," the embassy said.
Lithuania accuses Bulka of cooperation with the Soviet authorities in the 1950s, Belarusian e-media said on Sunday.
For instance, Lithuania said that he identified Lithuanian guerrillas known as Forest Brothers.
"This is all wrong. I have been fighting alcohol abuse all the time, and they are ascribing a political case to me," Bulka told Interfax on Monday.
"People talking about the Forest Brothers want me out. I know where this propaganda comes from," he said.
The Forest Brothers is the common name of nationalist units acting in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1940-1957 after the attachment of the republics to the former Soviet Union by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
The movement's activity reached its peak in Lithuania in 1944-1947.
Soviet and Russian historians described the movement as pro-Nazi.Modern history books of the Baltic republics define it as a national liberation movement.
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(Source: CT)