In Crimea, ex-employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were convicted of bribes and the migration channel

Former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were convicted of organizing an illegal migration channel in Yalta in 2016.

The former head of the migration department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Yalta was sentenced to 18.5 years in a maximum security colony, and his deputy was sentenced to 17 years.

The accomplices received bribes amounting to more than 1.4 million rubles.

SIMFEROPOL, October 9 - RIA Novosti. Former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were convicted of bribes and an illegal migration channel in Yalta, organized in 2016, the Crimean department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported.

According to the investigation, in the fall of 2016, the head of the department created a criminal community to receive bribes for the illegal stay of foreigners in Crimea with the subsequent acquisition of Russian citizenship.

“Former employees of internal affairs bodies were found guilty of organizing illegal migration and receiving bribes as part of a criminal community,” the statement says.

In particular, the former head of the migration department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Yalta was sentenced to 18.5 years in a maximum security colony, and his deputy was sentenced to 17 years.

Criminal cases against other persons have been separated into separate proceedings, in which verdicts were previously held.