In Transcarpathia, the Security Service of Ukraine, caught border guards, who helped foreigners to fictitiously cross the state border in return for money

Servicemen of the Mukachevo border detachment, who in return for money made false records about crossing the border by foreigners, were caught by the Security Service of Ukraine jointly with the military prosecutors.
Border guards had access to the database of exit from / entry to Ukraine records and for a fee provided illegal services to foreign nationals who did not want to personally cross the border to extend period of legal stay in our country.
The offenders would receive passports from clients through a courier delivery service from different regions of Ukraine and make in the database false records about crossing the border.
Law enforcers arrested corrupt officials in the office when they were entering false information on exit from and entry to Ukraine by a citizen of a European country.
During the searches, the Security Service of Ukraine seized from operatives a foreign passport and more than 11 thousand hryvnia.
Criminal proceeding under Part 1 and Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine was opened.
One of the defendants was notified about being suspected.
The pretrial investigation continues.