A resident of the Braslav district received a large fine for transporting illegal immigrants to Lithuania

April 18, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A resident of Braslav district received a large fine for transporting illegal immigrants to Lithuania, Igor Lisovsky, prosecutor of the organized crime and corruption department of the Vitebsk region prosecutor's office, told a BELTA correspondent. In November last year, a resident of Braslav district, born in 1981, who was not officially employed and had no prior problems with the law, organized the illegal entry into Belarus from Moscow of four citizens of Afghanistan (born in 1979, 1983, and two in 1991). Law enforcement officers detained him with the illegal immigrants near the Lithuanian border. For organizing illegal migration, the man was sentenced under Part 2 of Article 371-1 of the Criminal Code of Belarus to a fine of 500 base units (Br50 million). The sentence has not yet entered into legal force. -0-