The Soviet District Court in Chelyabinsk, Russia, has sentenced ten participants of a group involved in organizing illegal migration. Nine individuals received actual prison terms, while one defendant was fined.

The investigation found that for monetary compensation, they provided foreigners with counterfeit employment contracts, fake certificates of Russian language and history knowledge, and arranged registration in so-called "rubber apartments".

The criminal group's activities were halted by Ministry of Internal Affairs officers with support from the FSB and Rosgvardiya troops.

According to reports, three of the most active defendants were sentenced to six years in a penal colony, four received four years each, and two were given two to three years. The tenth defendant was fined 300,000 rubles.

The court found all defendants guilty under Article 322.1 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Organization of Illegal Migration").

Previously, a court in Crimea issued a verdict in a case on illegal migration. The organizer of the criminal scheme was a citizen of Uzbekistan, sentenced to five years in a general regime penal colony.

Source: podrobno.uz