The channel of fictitious registration of migrants was exposed in Irkutsk

In Irkutsk, police detained six women accused of organizing illegal migration. The suspects used fictitious documents to legalize over 1.5 thousand citizens from Central Asian countries. This was announced on November 20 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk.

"It has been previously established that a local resident became the organizer of the illegal business. She involved accomplices from among the property owners in it," she wrote in her Telegram channel.

The suspects offered foreigners services in making fictitious registrations and concluding nominal civil law contracts, which allowed them to extend their stay in Russia.

As a result of illegal activities in Irkutsk, more than 1.5 thousand citizens were legalized, and over 2.5 thousand fictitious documents were produced. The cost of services ranged from 1 to 5 thousand rubles.

The illegal migration channel was eliminated by employees of the criminal investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Irkutsk region and the regional Directorate of the FSB. The investigative authorities have opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 322.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Organization of illegal migration"), which provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to ten years.

During the searches, passports of foreign citizens, forms of migration documents and means of communication were seized from the suspects. Work is currently underway to identify all episodes of criminal activity and possible accomplices. Illegally issued documents will be cancelled, and foreign citizens who have received fictitious registrations will be removed from Russia.

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Earlier, on October 29, Tatyana Petrova, head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow Region, said that law enforcement agencies had brought to justice 96 migrants from Asia, Latin America and North Africa who illegally worked at a warehouse in Podolsk, Moscow region. It was clarified that 46 protocols were drawn up as a result of the raids.

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