ST. PETERSBURG, January 13 The court took into custody in St. Petersburg the organizer of an illegal migration scheme that legalized more than 9 thousand people, and one of the members of the criminal group — a police officer, reports SUSC for the Leningrad region in the department’s telegram channel.
“The organizer of the criminal group, a native of Uzbekistan born in 1997, has been charged with committing crimes under clauses “a”, “c”, Part 2 of Article 322.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organizing illegal migration by an organized group using their official position) and Part 3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (giving a bribe), a police officer, a native of Azerbaijan born in 1984, was charged with committing crimes under paragraphs “a”, “c” of Part 2 of Article 322.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of illegal migration by an organized group using official position) and Part 3 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe). At the request of the investigation, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention,» the investigation informs.
A criminal group that legalized more than 9 thousand migrants was identified in the Leningrad region; there were five people in the group, two of them were police officers. According to the Main Department of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the Department of Internal Security identified two local police officers involved in this scheme.
The investigation believes that from January 2020 to December 2023, the accused found premises on the territory of a tourist village in the Kingisepp district of the Leningrad region and organized a massive fictitious registration of foreign citizens (more than 9 thousand people) with migration registration. In addition, the organizer personally gave a bribe to a police officer for drawing up a report.
It was previously reported that, according to the Investigative Committee, the organizer of the group, born in 1997, found accomplices among law enforcement officers and employees of migration centers who organized the reception and issuance of documents containing deliberately false information to foreign citizens from the Central Asian republics, and also looked for premises for their mass registration in St. Petersburg and the region. In turn, police officers created conditions for obtaining patents for employment without leaving the Russian Federation to create the appearance of legality of migrants’ stay in the country.
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