A 23-year-old resident of Ternopil region paid 5 thousand US dollars for a place in the trunk of a car.
Tonight, a Mercedes minibus arrived at the Sheghini checkpoint on its way to Poland. During the check-in, the border guard checked the number of people who crossed the state border, which was noted in the control card. However, one less person arrived for passport control.
As it turned out later, the driver of the minibus agreed to transport a man of conscription age across the border for a monetary reward, who has no legal grounds for doing so. The carrier “valued” its services at $5,000.
In order to carry out an illegal transfer, a 23-year-old resident of Ternopil Oblast hid in the luggage compartment behind the seats during the inspection and did not submit documents for inspection. However, border guards still found him.
was not passed across the border and brought to administrative responsibility under Part 1 of Art. 204-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. In relation to the carriers, operatives of the Lviv border detachment sent a report to the National Police, in their actions there are signs of the crime provided for in Art. 332 of the Criminal Code “Illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine.”