In St. Petersburg detained the organizers of the channel of illegal migration

In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region stopped the activities of the group that organized the channel of illegal migration. This was reported in the FSB of Russia for the city and region.

According to the agency, the operation was carried out by FSB officers together with Regardie. The suspects entered into a preliminary conspiracy to make money on the fictitious setting of foreign citizens for migration registration.

Based on the materials of the FSB in the GSU IC of Russia in St. Petersburg opened a criminal case under articles on the organization of illegal migration and fictitious registration. The defendants were detained and taken into custody. Investigative actions and operational activities are underway.

Earlier in St. Petersburg has already been sentenced in a similar case. Three Russians and one native of the CIS countries organized a channel of illegal migration: for money they helped migrants to draw up documents and get a job at a food production enterprise. The defendants received from 2 to 3.5 years of a general regime colony and fines of 150 thousand rubles. Another member of the group escaped with a suspended sentence of two years and the same fine.