According to him, one of the members of the criminal group, with the assistance of law enforcement officers, selected people who wanted to leave for permanent residence in Israel but had no legal grounds for that. Using other people's application data, he arranged the processing and obtaining of forged passport documents at the passport service offices of Donetsk region.
For processing documents using other people's application data, the criminal group members charged $5.000 for each married couple sent abroad.
People who used the services of the criminal group received compensation payments for immigrants and new citizenship in Israel.
Through joint actions of Ukrainian and Israeli special services, some of the people who had used the services of the fraudsters were identified and deported to Ukraine. Criminal cases have been opened against them under Article 331 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – “Illegal crossing of the state border”.
Criminal proceedings have been initiated against one of the members of the criminal group on charges of a crime under Part 2 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code – “Illegal transfer of persons across the state border of Ukraine by prior conspiracy with a group of persons”. He was sentenced to four years in prison.
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