Illegal Migration Organizing Case Uncovered by Ministry of Internal Affairs

The officers of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Criminal Police intensified measures to uncover criminal activities based on information received from the External Investigation Department of the U.S. Embassy in Armenia. This has been reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The criminal police managed to uncover the entire mechanism of organizing illegal migration.

According to preliminary data, the following occurred: a 23-year-old resident of the Sari Tagh neighborhood of Yerevan learned that a 56-year-old man from Nor-Nork was organizing the acquisition of U.S. entry visas and approached him.

In exchange for a thousand dollars, the man directed the woman to Belgium to obtain a visa from the U.S. Embassy in Brussels. The woman traveled but returned to Armenia on November 7 after being denied.

This time, the 56-year-old man offered her to obtain an entry visa from the U.S. Embassy in Armenia. He provided a package of documents, including a work certificate from one of Armenia's banks and a certificate of attending an English language teaching center.

They also agreed that if successful, the woman would pay the man 10,000 dollars.

On November 17, the woman applied to the embassy for a non-immigrant student visa. However, the criminal police found out that the documents were forged and that the woman had never worked at the mentioned bank.

The prepared documents have been sent to the Investigative Committee. On December 1, criminal proceedings were initiated on the basis of organizing illegal migration and the use, preparation, or distribution of forged documents. The circumstances are being clarified during the pre-trial investigation.