26-08-2018
The staff of State Border Guard Service together with the law enforcement agencies conduct the events on counteraction to illegal movement by the illegal migrants across the state border.
Thus, in the framework of the joint special border operation “BORDER-2018” and the target preventive measures “Migrant”, inter-agency group, consisting of operational staff of the State Border Guard Service, representatives of the National Police and the State Migration Service, on the highway “Kyiv-Chop” on the outskirts of the village Velyki Lazy in Transcarpathian region stopped the van “OPEL ZAFIRA” of Polish registration driven by the citizen of the Russian Federation, in which he was transporting 6 undocumented persons, who introduced themselves as the citizens of Afghanistan.
The detained persons were delivered to the Border Unit “Uzhhorod” aiming to conduct filtration and verification actions. During interview the foreigners reported about their plans on getting the EU countries beyond the check points.
The RF citizen was arrested under the Art. 208 of the Crime Code of Ukraine (Detention by an authorized official) by the representatives of the National Police in the Transcarpathian region.
Source:https://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/news/na-zakarpatti-pravoohoronci-zatrimali-6-nezakonnih-migrantiv/
Receiving information from the local resident about possible smuggling of illegal migrants the border guards immediteadetly organized joint searching operation with the Police in the course of whicg two undocumented men were revealed. The detained persons introduced as the citizens of Mongolia. The men intended to cross illegally the Ukrainian-Hungarian border in order to move further aiming to improve their life conditions in one of the countries of the European Union. The foreigners were delivered to border unit for drawing up protocols and their identification as well as establishing the circle of persons involved in organization of there migrants’ illegal trip. The court will make the final decision on their case.
In the frames of the target preventive program “Migrant” four citizens of Vietnam and one persons from Afghanistan were found in the cars traveling to Transcarpathia. There were four men and a woman among the detainees inside the car driven by the Ukrainian. All foreigners had no any documents. So far, the circumstances of the offence are under verification.
Persons, involved in organization of the illegal trip for the undocumented foreigners, are wanted; however, the Police knows the circle of persons, who may be connected with this smuggling. The border guards informed the Police about the border cross by 14 illegal migrants. They were already stopped on another side of the border by Slovakian border guards. It had already been established that the violators got to the neighboring country through the border in Transcarpathia. The Slovakian Border Police detained the migrants. Currently, the issue is under consideration as their return in the frames of readmission to Ukraine, where they will be placed to the Temporary Holding Facility for the Migrants.
Six migrants from India and Pakistan were found in the woods of Transcarpathia. The law enforcers revealed two illegal migrants of Asian appearance in the suburb of the village Glubokoe, who were without any documents. Soon, frour more persons from the eastern countries were detected. Five detainees introduced themselves as the citizens of India, and one from Pakistan. During verification actions the foreigners reported about the unknown smugglers, who demaned money from them for as if they had already delivered the migrants to Hungary. However, they foreigners were left in the woods. The searches of involved persons continue as well as the filtration actions. Also, it was managed to detain the Ukrainian, who was probable guide. He did not have documents too and was unable to explain his stay within the border area.
One of the groups of the “travelers” was detained at about 2 a.m. by the border guards of Lviv Detachment. The foreigners arrived to the border by two taxi cars.
Three migrants from Vietnam were prevented to get to the EU in Transcarpathia. Information about a possible violation of the border was received by the operational staff of the Western regional department. The area was immediately deployed by the additional border guards.
One of these organized groups of Vietnamese was revealed by the staff of the State Border Guard Service and Head Deparment of National Police in Transcarpathian region at the support of the response unit of the Chop Detachment. They stayed in the private house without any documents and waited for the smugglers to choose a propoer moment for their transportation to the EU countries. Each of them had to pay $ 15 thousand for the “trip”.
Border guards of BD “Vilok” detained illegal migrants from South Asia according to the information provided by the operational staff of the State Border Guard Service. Two men without documents were found by law enforcers at the hotel in Vinogradov. During the initial interview the foreigners reported that one of them was a citizen of Bangladesh, another – from Pakistan. Both foreigners intended to cross illegally the state border and enter the countries of the European Union. For further performance of filtration measures and administrative documents draft under the Part 2 of Article 204-1 of the AICU, detained persons were taken to the department of BD “Vylok”. Measures are being taken to establish the circle of persons involved in the organization of illegal travel. The further destiny of the travellers will be determined by the court. Otherwise, the border guards of BD “Tysa”, Chop Department, detained a citizen of Russia attempting to cross the border avoiding the checkpoint. The violator left only 30 meters to cross the state border line. The detainee was taken to the Temporary Detention Facility in order to determine the circumstances of the offense. Border guards drew up a protocol under the Article. 204-1 of AICU. Afterwards, the case will be considered by the court.