Yelsk District Court has ruled on the case of Russian citizen attempting to cross the state border with a firearm.
A resident of the Kaluga Region intended to get to Ukraine with a gun in his pocket, sb.by reports. The incident occurred at the Belarusian-Ukrainian section of the border, at a checkpoint “Novaya Rudnya” in August.
Border guards stopped a ‘Mitsubishi’ for inspection. The clothes of the driver were checked with a metal detector. In the pocket of his vest, Belarusian officers found an IZH 79-9T — non-lethal traumatic weapon. They also found four cartridges with rubber bullets on the driver.
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The District Court found the man guilty of illegal transborder transfer of firearms, its storage and transportation. According to the press-secretary of the Homiel Regional Court Volha Barsukova, the Russian man was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in a penal colony with a reinforced regime. The sentence of the district court has not yet entered into force.
According to Ukrainian border guards, over the 9 months, customs officers seized 49 weapons on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border: 28 units were found at the entrance to Ukraine, and 21 — on the exit from Ukraine to Belarus.
