In Yalta, former police officers received long sentences for illegal migration and bribes

In Yalta sentenced in a criminal case against former officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Yalta, found guilty of organizing illegal migration. This was reported in the Prosecutor’s office of Crimea.

The court found that one of the defendants, being a law enforcement officer, created a criminal community. Its members ensured illegal migration of foreign citizens. During the criminal activity, they fictitiously registered more than 90 foreigners at the place of stay. As bribes for illegal actions, the community received more than 1.4 million rubles.

The activities of the accused were suppressed as a result of the interaction of the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, the GSU IC in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Crimea.

The court found them guilty of creating a criminal community, organizing illegal migration, fictitious registration of foreign citizens at the place of stay in the Russian Federation and receiving bribes.

The defendants were sentenced to 17 years and 18 years and 6 months in prison. They will serve their sentences in correctional colonies of strict regime. The sentence has not entered into force.

The criminal community in the migration department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yalta operated for several years. As reported by “MK in Crimea”, it was created by the former head of the migration department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yalta.

In the fall of 2016, he led a criminal cell that involved seven police officers and civilians, including his deputy, the inspector of Republican immigration control, several individual entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens.

The scheme was well organized: intermediaries searched for “clients”, registered them in their apartments and hostels, after which law enforcement officers illegally and quickly issued foreigners on the territory of the peninsula. The criminals were identified only in September 2019, when 117 cases under different articles of the Criminal Code were combined into one proceeding.

Earlier, in June 2024, MK in Crimea reported on the completion of the investigation against a former police officer who organized the illegal stay of migrants in Yalta.

From April to August 2023, who worked at that time as an inspector of the migration department of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Yalta, made false information about the permanent residence of seven migrants in the region. They illegally became Russian citizens and received passports. In one case, the woman received 80 thousand rubles as a bribe.