Ten people arrested for trying to illegally cross Georgian border
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Eight citizens of Bangladesh, one citizen of Georgia and one citizen of Azerbaijan were arrested by the Georgian police for trying to cross the country’s border illegally in the Samtskhe-Javakheti southern region of Georgia bordering Turkey.
Five citizens of Bangladesh and one citizen of Georgia were detained in the Charala border sector, while three other citizens of Bangladesh and one citizen of Azerbaijan were arrested near the Vale border sector. They were trying to cross the border illegally aiming to make it into Turkey, Interior Ministry said today.
The offence is punishable by four to five years imprisonment.
The detainee is from Kutaisi and occupants have arrested him for so-called illegally crossing the so called border at the river Enguri. The information was released by the de-facto interior ministry of Abkhazia and later confirmed by the State Security Service of Georgia.
Investigators say that the detainees were trying to cross the Georgia-Turkey border aiming to enter Turkey and avoiding border control.
Security officials at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport had to deal with a strange case over the weekend, when they found a wheelchair-bound man along with a 40-year-old woman who claimed to be his aunt attempting to enter Israel illegally.
The seven detainees who are the citizens of Bangladesh, India and Yemen, have illegally crossed the Armenian-Georgian state border, avoiding the border control procedures.
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