Federal Migration Service officer provides new foreign passports.
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Network of Illegal Migration Unveiled in Russia
Russia’s FSB has done away with a global network of criminals arranging illegal migration to Western Europe from South-East Asia and CIS and via the territory of Russia. Investigators detained chiefs of the criminal group headed by a bureaucrat of Russia, RIA Novosti reported referring to the news release of FSB. Interpol, secret services of Uzbekistan, Italy and Finland took part in the operation.
Residents of Moldova and Ukraine were members of that criminal group dealing with illegal migration. Of them, more than 20 have been identified already, and six criminal cases have been initiated against the masterminds.
According to FSB, shell companies in Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Ekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Kaliningrad, Omsk, Ufa and Khabarovsk concluded sham contracts with the Russians about their overseas employment. In that way, the criminals obtained real passports of those persons and stamped Schengen visas in them.
In special underground laboratories, criminal experts changed data in already executed passports of the Russians, pasting photos of people willing to illegally leave for the Western Europe. The cost of the fake passport and frontier crossing was between €3,000 and €5,000.
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