MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The Russian Investigative Committee’s Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow has completed its investigation into a criminal group that was involved in providing illegal immigrants with fake addresses of registration, and submitted the case to court, the committee told TASS.
"The Investigative Department for the Northern Administrative District of the [Russian] Investigative Committee’s Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow has finished its criminal investigation into the two masterminds and ten members of a criminal group. Judging by the role of each, they were charged with committing crimes stipulated in the articles ‘organization of a criminal group or participation in it’ (Article 210 of Russia’s Criminal Code), ‘organization of illegal immigration’ (Article 322.1) and ‘abuse of power’," the statement said.
According to the investigators, from 2019 to 2022, the perpetrators established a criminal group that aimed to facilitate illegal immigration in the Moscow Region.
"They built up the operation of hostels in Moscow and the Moscow Region, where foreign citizens, including those staying in the Russian Federation in breach of current immigration law, were registered fictitiously en masse," Moscow’s investigative body said.