Boris Dekanidze (Georgian: ბორის დეკანიძე; 13 December 1962[1] – 12 July 1995) was the head of the Vilnius Brigade criminal organization in Lithuania.
In 1993, after receiving a number of death threats, Vitas Lingys, one of the founders and publishers of the newspaper Respublika, was shot at point-blank range near his home in Vilnius.
Dakanidze claimed he was innocent, as the evidence against him was primarily the testimony of Igor Akhremov (a former hitman for the Vilnius Brigade), who testified to having carried out the killing on Dekanidze's orders.
Lithuanian authorities shut down a nuclear power plant after a terrorist threat was made against it the day after the convictions were handed down.
[5] Dekanidze's execution was the last in Lithuania, and capital punishment was abolished for all crimes in 1998 after the Lithuanian Constitutional Court ruled it unconstitutional.