Under the procedural leadership of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the pre-trial investigation was completed and the indictment against five members of the organized group was sent to the court. They are charged with illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine (Part 3 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The investigation established that an organized group, which included residents of Lviv and Volyn regions, developed a scheme to transport conscripted men across the state border.
They carried out the transfer of persons in a thoughtful way for a fee. One of the members of the group was the head of a company engaged in international transportation. This made it possible to enter information into the “Shlyah” system that the conscripts are allegedly also its employees. Thus, men were allowed to travel outside Ukraine as drivers.
Later, accomplices who had the right to legally cross the border awaited conscripts at the checkpoints. Their duty was to coordinate the next actions of their clients. The last members of the OG provided their vehicles, which they used to move across the border.
After that, the defendants followed them and also went abroad, to the meeting places, with the aim of returning the vehicles.
Having successfully crossed the borders of Ukraine, they met again already on the territory of another country. There, the accused took the car and returned home, and their clients, accordingly, continued the planned route through another country.
It is documented that 14 people illegally crossed the border of Ukraine under this scheme.
According to the results of the conducted searches, mobile phones, computer equipment and documents were seized and seized from the participants of the scheme.
Vehicles, real estate and cash are also under arrest.
The pre-trial investigation was carried out by investigators of the investigative department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Lviv region under the operational support of the State Border Service of Ukraine and the Migration Police Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Lviv region.
Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.
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