In Irkutsk Region, police carried out a large scale check at the Central Market and a shopping complex. In the first hours, more than 200 people were detained and checked against criminal databases and fingerprinted and video recorded. 35 foreign citizens from nearby countries without legal grounds to stay in Russia were placed in a detention center and will soon be deported. The regional police said such raids will continue, and landlords of so called rubber apartments will also be targeted.
Only in the first hours of the operation, police detained more than 200 people from the stalls of the Central Market and the Shopping Complex. Those taken to the police department are being checked against forensic information databases for involvement in crimes. Along with this, specialists are fingerprinting and video-recording those brought in.Administrative reports are being drawn up by representatives of the Federal Migration Service and district police officers against some of them who violated migration legislation. 35 citizens of neighboring countries have been placed in a special detention facility for lacking legal grounds to stay in Russia. They are mainly natives of Central Asia and the Caucasus. In the near future they will be deported in accordance with the procedure established by law.
The regional headquarters notes that such operations are not being carried out for the first time and will continue in the future. In the near future, the internal affairs bodies also intend to take on the owners of so-called “rubber apartments” for illegal migrants.
According to statistical data for the first six months of this year, the regional police solved 126 crimes committed by foreign citizens, whereas in the same period last year 106 crimes of this category were solved.
Based on materials from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk Region