Nearly 3.2 mln persons crossed the Moldovan border since 1 January 2007

The Border Guard Service (BGS) of Moldova arrested nearly one thousand persons for different infringements, 217 of which cases of illegal border crossing. These data were made public by BGS at a press conference on Tuesday, May 8. According to the head of BGS general director’s office o, Rosian Vasiloi, almost every day BGS trace and arrest Moldovan and foreign citizens that occur to hold false ID cards and passports. There were 168 persons arrested for the violation of the stay-permit rules on the territory of Moldova. At the same time, there were traced 65 fugitive persons and one stolen vehicle. On the whole, from the begging of the year the state border was crossed by nearly 3,200,000 persons and 700,000 transport units. Nearly 506,000 persons and 120,000 vehicles crossed the Moldova-Romania border and almost 2,544,000 persons and 538,000 cars crossed the Moldova-Ukraine one. About 132,000 crossed the Moldovan border by air. After annulling the visa regime for EU citizens were twice more visitors to Moldova from the European Union than in the same period of 2006.