Model je postavil fake državno mejo, da je lahko zaračunaval "tihotapljenje v EU"
A con man allegedly built a fake border crossing between Russia and Finland — and got paid to smuggle migrants to the ‘Finnish’ side
Dec. 5, 2019 at 4:26 p.m. GMT+1
The people smuggler had his routine all figured out: take $11,000 in cash from each migrant worker, then carry them safely across the Russian border into Finland.
There was just one twist: The smuggler was allegedly a con man, his border crossing a fake. He had built it himself, and both sides were in Russian territory, Russian officials said this week.
“The man never planned to carry out his promises,” Interfax, a Russian news agency,
wrote in a report this week after the con man and the four men he duped were arrested.
The unidentified man swindled four migrant workers from South Asia last month, taking more than $40,000 from them in exchange for the promise of safe passage into the European Union, according to Russian news reports.
Finnish broadcaster YLE reported that he took them on a roundabout route that, at one point, included walking them around a lake as they carried a boat.
Guards detain man who took thousands from migrants before leading them on bogus journey into what they thought was EU
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The man accused of putting up fake posts near the border with Finland is now facing a fraud charge.
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