He tried to drive a car with German license plates to Lithuania, but with forged German residence permits
The officers of the Druskininkai border checkpoint of the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) of the Varėna border checkpoint checked a Toyota Corolla car traveling from Belarus to Lithuania at the Raigard border checkpoint.
The vehicle with German registration plates was carrying a driver and five passengers.
The personal documents of the Toyota driver, a 43-year-old Russian citizen with a German residence permit, were in order.
The passports of his compatriots, 21-year-old, 34-year-old and 38-year-old men and two minors, who were traveling with him, were without complaint. However, the border guards were suspicious of their permanent residence permits in Germany.
The German documents, as suspected, were found to be genuine forgeries. Otherwise, the presence of Russians in the Schengen area would be legal.
Foreigners were informed that they would no longer be able to continue their journeys.
In such formal cases, in ordinary cases, the border guards wrote and handed over to Russian citizens a refusal to allow them to enter Lithuania. The German fakes were taken from the Russians, they were all returned to Belarus that day.
The VSAT officials allowed the Russian citizen who was driving the car to continue, but he did not use the other one. He returned to Belarus with his compatriots who were not admitted.