The National Security Service of RA, considering organization of illegal migration as a type of transnational crime and conducting the consistent fight against this phenomenon on the basis of the norms of international law and national legislation, detected another case of organization of illegal migration. 

According to the obtained factual data, from July 2018 till February 2020 a group of persons residing in Yerevan and Aragatsotn Marz, with prior agreement and for mercenary purposes, undertook to organize a process of illegal transportation of over 20 RA citizens abroad for 3.500-3.800 EUR. In order to obtain the corresponding entry visas they prepared false documents, i.e. marriage certificates, employment certificates, extracts on movements in bank accounts; thus, migrants left the Republic of Armenia and illegally entered the Schengen countries with entry visas obtained with the use of the abovementioned documents from the Embassies of a number of European countries functioning in RA.  

А criminal case was initiated in the Investigation Department of the RA NSS on the fact of an apparent crime, according to the corresponding articles of the RA Criminal Code.

Prior to obtaining an entry visa by submitting false documents once again under the control of the operational subdivisions of the RA NSS, one of the organizers was caught and brought in. He confessed to the crime, and the others left the territory of the Republic of Armenia.   

The preliminary investigation on the case is being conducted; measures are being taken to establish all episodes of the crime, as well as to detect persons involved in commitment of the crime and to subject them to liability.

Note: The suspect or accused of an alleged crime is considered innocent as long as his/her guilt is not proven in a manner prescribed by the Code of Criminal Procedure of RA - by the court decision entered into legal force.