16-12-2017
The border guards of Chop Detachment detained 7 citizens of Afghanistan and Bangladesh near the state border of Ukraine in the late evening.
The district inspector General of BD “Guta” has received information from the operational staff of the State Border Guard Service about the appearance of citizens of Asian appearance, presumably illegal migrants. After a while, the police inspector found and arrested 7 men, 4 – Afghan citizens and 3 citizens of Bangladesh. The citizens did not have any identity documents.
Currently, the detainees were taken to the Border Guard Division, materials on administrative violations were drawn up as to the attempt to violate illegally the state border of Ukraine.
Also, the activities continue on establishment of the persons involved in the organization of illegal immigrants smuggling across the border. A decision on the case against the foreigners will be made by the court.
The citizen of Iraq attempting to get illegally to Belgium was detected by the border guards of separate check point “Kyiv” in the Boryspil Airport. The document, namely the forged ID-card was revealed by the border guards when verifying the document of one of the passengers traveling by transit via Ukraine. The traveler planned to get to Brussels then. Currently, the persons are sent by a back flight.
During inspection of the regular buses at the Novovolynsk town bus station the joint detail composed of the district inspector of BD “Morozovychi” and “Ambukiv”, Lviv Detachment, as well as the representatives of National Police in Volyn region found the citizens of Libya, Syria and Algeria, two of which violated the stay rules on the territory of Ukraine.
Only during the last week three citizens of Russia agreed 45, 38 and 27 being persecuted in the Russian Federation asked for refugee status at the state border of Ukraine.
The border guards of Odessa Detachment found forged documents belonging to three citizens of Turkey in the check point “Odessa-air”.
Special border operation “Border-2017” was conducted from April 11 till November 30 of the current year at the initiative and under the general coordination of State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Except the SBGS, there were also territorial bodies of interacting structures participating in the operation, in particular, Security Service of Ukraine, National Police of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Guard, Migration Service of Ukraine, State Fiscal Service. In addition, Ukrainian Railways Station, Ukrainian Air Connection and radio-technical subdepartments of Air Forces of Ukraine also took part in it in the frames of their competition. It is important that the resources of Border Guard Departments of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova and international organizations, such as FRONTEX, EU Mission EUBAM, INTERPOL, EUROPOL were also involved in these actions.
District inspector of Border Guard Service together with the staff of National Police detained a citizen of Jordan in the frames of special operation “Migrant”. The man was in the controlled border area without any appropriate documents. The foreigner could not confirm the aim of his stay in the border zone. The man introduced himself as a student of Poltava University.
The foreigners intending to get illegally to the European Union were apprehended by the border guards of BD “Guta”, Chop Detachment, in the morning. Having no any documents two illegal migrants attempted to get through the woods to the Ukrainian-Slovakian border. The militaries hindered their plans noticing the motion of unknown persons 500 m before the state border. The violators, introduced as the citizens of Turkey, were detained for attempt to overcome the barrage fence. As it was established by the border guards one of the detainees was caught already the second time for crossing the state border. Currently, the violators are delivered to the BD “Guta” in order to undergo filtration measures and drawing up appropriate procedural documents. Upon persons’ identification they will be called to administrative responsibility under the Part 2 Art. 204-1 AICU “Illegal cross or attempt to cross the state border of Ukraine”
The staff of SBGS recorded four cases of offering bribes at the checkpoints on the border.
The border guards of Berdyansk Detachment continue to detected persons attempting to get to the territory of Ukraine by invalid documents.