A boat smuggler with two "passengers" was detained by border guards of Mohyliv-Podilskyi border guard detachment while implementing operational information.

An 18-year-old Moldovan citizen tried to carry out an illegal "transfer" across the state border. The foreigner illegally crossed the border on a rubber boat to pick up two "passengers" who were waiting on the Ukrainian shore.

As it turned out later, the natives of Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro regions paid 8 thousand US dollars for the illegal "trip". The actions of the offenders were observed by border guards who moved to detain them when the boat docked from ambush. Realizing that he had been exposed, the Moldovan tried to escape. The young man jumped into the Dnister, but was stopped when he heard shots behind him.

The violators were brought to administrative reliability.

The punishment for such a crime is imprisonment for a term of seven to nine years.