Three persons stand trial for forging passports
The Prosecutor General’s Office sent to court the legal case opened against three persons who are accused of forging and holding official documents and of organizing illegal migration, Info-Prim Neo reports.
According to a communiqué from the Prosecutor General’s Office, sufficient proofs were collected to prove that the three persons founded an organized criminal group with the aim of organizing the illegal migration of citizens to Russia on the basis of forged passports. In 2007 – 2009, the members of the group recruited potential migrants, collected the necessary documents from them and forged Russian passports for them.
Eighty persons were issued with forged passports. A document cost between €1,000 and €3,000. The group was directed by a 44-year-old woman from Chisinau, who headed the public association “Russian Community in Rybnitsa Town”. Upon a search of her home, there were found and seized fake stamps and seals and official documents.
The case is examined by the Centru district court. The three persons are tried outside prison.