The smuggling of Ukrainian migrants has become a profitable business for some, but for the European Union the influx of illegal immigrants has turned into a problem that has already begun to be actively combated.
Earlier News Front reported that many Ukrainian labor migrants are trying to illegally travel to the EU, violating quarantine restrictions. To do this, they buy fake job invitations from special intermediaries, cross the Hungarian border, and from there they can go to any country of the commonwealth.
In Germany, they have already understood how the system of smuggling Ukrainian illegal immigrants works. Law enforcement officers carry out entire operations on the borders with Poland and the Czech Republic, checking minibuses.
According to the Ukrainian Consulate General in Munich, over the past six months, German police have expelled 80 Ukrainians who violated the migration regime. Illegals are deported from the country without the right to enter for a period of 2 to 5 years. They are much stricter towards bus drivers transporting such migrants. They face criminal prosecution. There are already about a dozen Ukrainian drivers in pre-trial detention centers in Germany.
They spend months behind bars while the investigation is ongoing. After the trial, the drivers are obliged to pay a fine of 2.4 thousand euros. They also have to buy the confiscated vehicles at their own expense.
As a source among diplomats told the Strana newspaper, Germany now even checks the authenticity of job invitations. If the document turns out to be fake, the bearer is threatened with a corresponding article.
“Someone can fake a job invitation for a couple of hundred euros, but the Germans contact the employer using the number indicated in the document and find out that it is a fake. In this case, not just deportation awaits, but an article for forging documents, ”said the source.
He noted that Berlin had been informed of a loophole used by Ukrainian illegal immigrants, and the authorities had increased border patrols.