Border guards found voice messages in the mute evader's phone

At a checkpoint near the border with Moldova, border guards stopped a car with a man who provided documents that he was deaf and dumb. But the phone gave him away.

According to the State Border Guard Service, border guards of the Mogilev-Podilskyi detachment, together with representatives of the National Police, stopped a car driven by a 37-year-old resident of the Dnipropetrovsk region for inspection. The passenger was a 25-year-old man, a fellow countryman of the driver, who provided documents of a person with hearing and speech disabilities of the second disability group.

However, the inspection established that the certificates had signs of forgery: there were no seals on the photographs and stamps of an unidentified sample. In addition, his voice messages were found in the man's phone, which definitively refuted attempts to simulate muteness. Finally, the man himself spoke up and during the conversation admitted that he planned to illegally cross the border with the forged documents.

It was also established that the driver organized a «full package of services» for him for 3,500 euros – the production of forged documents and delivery to the border.

In addition, during the inspection of the «Volkswagen» car, law enforcement officers found seals, clichés and forms with the imprints of the CCC of one of the regions. These forms were issued in the name of men of draft age.

A 25-year-old Ukrainian was brought to administrative responsibility under Article 204-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and Administrative Offenses «Illegal crossing or attempted illegal crossing of the state border of Ukraine».

Under the procedural guidance of the Mogilev-Podilskyi District Prosecutor's Office, the driver was notified of suspicion under Article Part 3 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine «Illegal transportation of persons across the state border».