Three residents of the Viciebsk region and their accomplice from Tajikistan, who organized the channel of illegal migration to the European Union, were sentenced to three years in prison with confiscation of property.

In July 2017, the men sold the illegal transit through Belarus of five citizens of Afghanistan. Foreigners were supposed to illegally get into the European Union.

The court found Belarusians and a citizen of Tajikistan guilty of a crime stipulated by part 2 of Article 371-1 of the Criminal Code — organization, leadership and assistance in illegal entry into the Republic of Belarus, stay and transit of foreign citizens committed by a group of persons by prior agreement. They will serve their sentences in a penal colony of a reinforced regime.

Ivan Dziedushkin, news.vitebsk.cc