Petersburg police detained a group of people who organized an illegal migration channel. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.
It is clarified that law enforcement officers identified illegal registration of foreigners in the Kalininsky district. Thus, many of the 1,500 foreigners who were refused by the Russian Migration Service in some areas of the city managed to register for migration in others. These facts were discovered after district police officers selectively rechecked the lists of “refuseniks.”
It turned out that the documents that migrants provided when applying to the migration service again were prepared and printed uniformly and contained inaccurate information.
A criminal case was opened. During the operational activities, three citizens were detained: a 37-year-old St. Petersburg resident and two migrants, 20 and 29 years old. The first was looking for people who wanted to register for migration, bypassing the law; in addition, the criminals advertised their services in Telegram channels. They worked from an existing copy center located in a business center on Uchitelskaya Street. During the search there, office equipment, a computer, rough accounting records and notebooks with lists of “clients” from among citizens of neighboring countries were seized.
The police believe that the attackers managed to legalize more than one hundred migrants. Officially, the involvement of the defendants in the illegal registration of at least 6 illegal migrants has so far been established. Each person paid 5 thousand rubles for a package of false documents.
The suspects are in custody. The investigation is ongoing.
Source: Rosbalt
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