In Odesa region, an entrepreneur helped people cross the border by falsifying data in the "Shlyakh" system

Law enforcement officers detained the director of a company in Odesa region, who is suspected of falsifying data in the Shlyakh system.

According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Odesa Oblast, the company's director helped men of mobilization age to go abroad in exchange for a monetary reward. He employed them as drivers in his company. Later, he entered information about the new employees into the information system. This gave them legal grounds to cross the border freely.

Photo: State Border Guard Service

Having illegally obtained legal grounds, the men drove the company's trucks to Moldova. Later, a completely different person delivered the car to Ukraine.

It has been preliminarily established that the entrepreneur smuggled at least seven men in this way.

Photo: State Border Guard Service

Based on the evidence obtained, investigators of the Investigation Department of the Main Department of the National Police in Odesa Oblast served a notice of suspicion to the head of the company, which provides international freight transportation services. His actions are classified under Part 2 of Article 332 (Illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine) and Part 3 of Article 362 (Unauthorized actions with information processed in automated systems committed by a person who has the right to access it) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The court imposed on the suspect a custodial detention with the right to be released on bail in the amount of UAH 1 million 816.8 thousand.

The maximum penalty under the articles is up to 9 years in prison with confiscation of property.

In May, during a live broadcast on Intent.Insight, lawyer and human rights activist Andriy Leshchenko explained that the unfair use of the Shlyakh system is not recognized as an offense under current Ukrainian law.

In March, the Center for Public Investigations learned that Oleksandr Ivanitskyi, a deputy of the Odesa City Council from the mayor's party "Trust the Deeds," was the first Odesa politician since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia to receive permission to travel abroad using the "Shlyakh" system.

Кирило Бойко