On Friday, September 15, 88 persons were stopped from illegally crossing the border between Latvia and Belarus, while a total – 8380 persons have been stopped during this year.
Due to humanitarian reasons, five persons were not banned from crossing the state border during the past 24 hours; 333 persons have been admitted for humanitarian reasons this year.
On September 15, officials of the State Border Guard detected 50 offenders at external borders and within the country.
24 trespassers were detected at external borders, including:
- 1 foreigner with forged documents was detected
at the Grebņeva Border Control Point 1 citizen of Moldova, who presented to border guards forged Moldovan vehicle driving license, was detected. Criminal proceedings were initiated for using forged documents. The forged document was seized within the framework of the criminal proceedings.
- entry into the Republic of Latvia was refused to 4 foreigners
at the Grebņeva, the Vientuļi, the Pāternieki and the „Riga” Airport Border Control Points, entry into the Republic of Latvia was refused to one citizen of Russia, as the foreigner was not in possession of valid visa or residence permit; to one citizen of Moldova, as the foreigner was not in possession of valid travel document. One more citizens of Ukraine and one - of Russia were banned from entry into the Republic of Latvia due to security reasons. The persons were returned to the country of departure.
- conditions of residence were violated by 7 foreigners
two citizens of Uzbekistan, two – of Moldova, one – of Ukraine, one – of Belarus and one – of Russia were detected at the Terehova, the Grebņeva, the Pāternieki and the „Riga” Airport Border Control Points for violating the conditions of residence in the territory of the Schengen Area Countries (exceeded the duration of stay specified in the visa or visa-free-regime, were not in possession of valid visas or residence permits). The persons were subjected to administrative liability.
While carrying out immigration control measures within the country, violations of entry or residence conditions were detected for 6 persons – three citizens Estonia, two - of Lithuania and one - of Ukraine.
Within the framework of vehicle and vessel operations, 20 persons were subjected to administrative liability or were refused the right to enter the Republic of Latvia by officials of the State Border Guard of Latvia – five citizens of Latvia, four - of Belarus, two – of Lithuania, two – of Georgia, two – of Moldova, one – of Azerbaijan, one – of Kazakhstan, one – of Kirgizstan, one – of Germany and one – of Uzbekistan.