To Vienna - from Aleppo

To Vienna with love

Another brilliant blockbuster was a special operation by border guards of Odessa airport and employees of the Security Service of Ukraine in Odessa region.

So the situation was like this. An illegal migration channel operates in Odessa. Two Iraqi citizens and one Syrian arrived in the city illegally, bypassing the Ukrainian border.

Their desire to get to Europe was embodied by two Syrians from Aleppo and Damascus. These two organizers of the channel had temporary residence permits in Ukraine.

The illegals planned to get to Austria in comfort - by plane. Accordingly, the channel's organizers bought foreign passports from their accomplices. Two valid passports - citizens of Sweden and Slovakia. And one fake - Greek.

It was planned that the Syrian, one of the organizers of the channel, would fly with the illegals and return their real passports upon arrival in Vienna, while taking the Swedish, Slovak and Greek passports back.

Both organizers of the channel understood that a guarantee of departure of illegals from Ukraine could be a superficial check of their documents by border guards at the airport. Accordingly, the Syrians began to search and negotiate with one of the border guards. The organizers met with him several times and offered $ 6,500 - for the passage of three illegals on other people's passports.

But the border guard turned out to be aware - although he agreed to let illegal migrants in, he wrote a statement to the local Security Service of Ukraine. And all further actions already took place within the limits of special investigative experiment.

Unaware of this, the Syrian organizers planned further action.

So the first was planned to cross the border and register for the landing of an illegal with a forged Greek passport. Then he had to go "Swedish".

After that, the co-organizer of the channel had to pass the last part of the bribe to the border guard in a cafe near the airport. And accordingly to pass on board with the third illegal immigrant.

In order not to expose themselves, border guards and SBU officers let the first illegal immigrant through. He called the organizers of the channel. He was followed by another. And only after that the co-organizer met with the border guard and gave him the last part of the money. Then both illegals and both co-organizers were detained by militiamen.

The Syrians were not ordinary people. One of them had more than 300 grams of cannabis. It was found in the apartment during a search. Another Syrian was renting a hotel. During the search, they found a Zoraki 914-S pistol № NUMBER_7, which belongs to a non-standard, reworked, short-barreled, smooth-bore firearm of 9 mm caliber, as well as 11 rounds of ammunition.

With so many feats behind them, the Syrians decided to confess in everything sincerely and signed a plea agreement with the prosecutor during the trial. Therefore received conditional terms.

Instead, their accomplices, who traded passports, continue to be unknown to the general public.

Foreigners "are aware"

As we wrote above, it is extremely difficult to organize a channel of illegal migration without foreigners. After all, after entering the country, illegals need drivers, apartments, and escorts who will take them deep into the European Union.

Thus, in Transcarpathia, an organized criminal group consisted of two Hungarians. In total, in addition to foreigners, it included four other Ukrainians. The immediate leader was Tiberius Chingery Chobovich. Two more - the Cornell brothers - carriers and attendants.

Instead, the group leader was responsible for the conspiracy. He used six phone numbers. His job - in addition to leadership - is to search for groups of illegal migrants.

This brave team met illegals in the Chernivtsi region and transported them to Ivano-Frankivsk region, to the city of Dolyna. Then the path lay through the Toruń Pass, on the border of Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions.

Next - Vynohradiv district - Flamingo Motel, located in Vynohradiv.

Here illegals were placed for their secret hiding and provided with food for the latter, before illegal transportation across the state border of Ukraine - to the village of Matesalka (Hungary).

In Hungary, two local residents, one of whom was Viorel, housed illegals in an apartment previously rented by Viorel, with the aim of secretly hiding and ensuring their secret delivery to the European Union.

Later, another Hungarian transported them inland and later to Western Europe.

Illegals were transported both through the village of Vylok and transported by boat across the Tisza River.

The members of the channel were "armed" with several cars. Among them are a BMW and two Volkswagen Passats.

In particular, money for smuggling illegals was transferred to relatives' bank cards.

They were transported in small groups of 5-6 illegal immigrants.

So the main role was actually played by two Hungarians. After all, they were responsible for staying in Hungary, further detention of illegals and secret escort to the countries of the European Union. And this is the main thing in all channels of illegal transportation across the border. After all, most lawsuits show that illegals are mostly found by law enforcement officers of foreign countries. Organizers and members of criminal groups successfully smuggle foreign migrants across the border. And the snag - in foreign colleagues. Where in criminal groups includes persons on the other side of the border of Ukraine - everything goes like clockwork.

Hungarian corrupt officials

It would be wrong to say that only among Ukrainians there are corrupt people. There are also many such personnel in the Hungarian migration service. So the Ukrainian and the Hungarian organized the channel. For example, they brought a Ukrainian who wanted to get a foreign passport to Hungary. There he was photographed, he signed documents. And in the migration service of Budapest he was issued a foreign passport of a Hungarian citizen. However with other installation data, a surname and a name. However, with his photo.

This procedure cost the Ukrainian 12 thousand euros. And this is 125 thousand hryvnias.

In Ukraine, to illegally produce a passport of a citizen of Ukraine cost 125 thousand hryvnias. Such prices were in another criminal community. One of its members, according to the investigation, had strong ties to the DMS.

He received a foreign passport of a Donetsk resident from his accomplices, and an illegal Ukrainian passport was made illegally at Zaliznychnyy Department of the DMS of Lviv. Accordingly, he had the right to enter the European Union without hindrance.

Glorious Chervonohrad

And the inhabitants of Chervonohrad followed a well-trodden path. They smuggled illegals around the border. Fee - from 7 to 12.5 thousand dollars. There were professionals in the group. Arriving at the line of engineering and control structures, they stretched the barbed wire of the first barrier fence, which illegal migrants overcame through the passage, and in the same way overcame the second barrier fence. Subsequently, the escorts of the illegals laid a foam carpet through the checkpoint to prevent leaving a large number of traces, which were groups of illegal migrants, and escorts, taking the foam carpet, returned to the rear of the site.

Chervonohrad residents escorted Afghans and other groups of migrants to Poland for a distance of 6-7 kilometers, and only then did other members of the criminal group return.

Areviderci Roma - and we are in Europe!

"The material was prepared with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation within the project" Series of anti-corruption investigative journalism - The Road to Europe. How criminals and terrorists from Africa and Asia - illegally - enter the European Union - on the route Russia - Belarus - Ukraine. The position of the authors does not necessarily coincide with the position of the International Renaissance Foundation.