Operational units of Chernivtsi Border Guard Detachment consistently make significant efforts to identify and apprehend individuals engaged in the illegal transportation of people across the Ukrainian state border.

Perpetrators of such offences employ various factors while commiting their crimes, including knowledge of the local terrain, geographical peculiarities of the state border line, connections among local residents involved in unlawful activities, and more. However, border guards gather comprehensive operational information, consolidating it into a unified whole to effectively counteract these violations.

A resident of Chernivtsi region, in pursuit of profit from the illegal transportation of conscription age men across the border, decided to take advantage of the location of his residence. His house is situated just a few hundred meters from the Ukrainian state border with Romania.

However, the border guards acted preemptively. According to the border security officials, a criminal investigation was launched, and in collaboration with representatives of the National Police under the procedural guidance of Novoselytsia department of Chernivtsi District Prosecutor's Office, they apprehended the organizer of the illegal transportation of individuals across the border and two of his "clients." The scheme's organizer demanded 4,000 euros from each of them for bypassing the BCPs and entering the neighboring country.

Law enforcement officers conducted a search at the residence of the main suspect in the criminal case, during which they seized a thermal imager, mobile phones, cash, bank cards, handwritten notes, as well as unprocessed amber, the trade of which is regulated by Ukrainian legislation.

The organizer of the illegal operation has been detained. He has been formally charged and remanded in custody with the possibility of posting bail. The individual faces a potential prison sentence of up to 9 years.