In total, 10,766 people have been prevented from illegally crossing the state border so far this year as Belarus shows no sign of easing up on its state-sponsored people smuggling operation.
Meanwhile one Tajik and one Uzbek citizen were stopped at the Pāternieki border checkpoint presenting a fake Uzbek technical inspection certificate to the border guards. The persons have been held administratively liable.
At the Riga Airport border control point, one Turkish citizen was...