14 July 2001
Five illegal migrants arrested on Polish border this week
Five foreign nationals were arrested this week by the Belarusian border control authorities when they tried to enter Poland using forged passports, according to a press release of the Brest Border Control Group.
A citizen of Mongolia who had his photo pasted into someone else's passport was apprehended at the Tsentralny (Central) checkpoint in Brest. The Mongolian claimed to have paid $1,000 for the passport.
Three Moldovan nationals were detained at the Varshavsky Most (Warsaw Bridge) checkpoint after they produced forged passports.
A citizen of Armenia was caught under similar circumstances. The Armenian said that he had paid $2,000 for his fake passport. All the illegal aliens have been deported from Belarus.
Since the beginning of 2001, border guards in the Brest region are reported to have detained a total of 150 people who attempted to cross the border illegally.
http://brestonline.com/en/news/news36.html