Border guards detain wanted Russian fraudster at Kyiv airport

13:50, 30.10.2017 1 min read

Border guards of the Kyiv separate checkpoint at the Zhuliany checkpoint (Kyiv Airport) have detained a Russian citizen who was placed on the international wanted list, the Ukrainian State Border Service (SBS) reported on Sunday, October 29.

"When registering passengers of the Barcelona-Kyiv flight, a Russian was found on Interpol's database. The man, born in 1970, was wanted by the Russian law enforcement agencies for large-scale fraud," a statement on the SBS website says.

Ukraine's Interpol Bureau in Kyiv was informed about the situation. The citizen was handed over to National Police employees.

According to the State Border Service, since the beginning of the year, border guards have already recorded nearly 2,600 people placed on the Interpol database, identifying more than 1,800 offenders.