The FSB, together with the police, arrested more than 20 people involved in organizing illegal immigration and stealing funds allocated to state protection orders. This was reported on October 27 by the Public Relations Center (PSC) of Russia's FSB. "The FSB, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior in the Perm, Rostov, Novgorod and Ivanovo territories, stopped the illegal activity of the heads of several commercial companies linked to the organization of an interregional criminal community that worked to ensure the functioning of the illegal immigration channel and the theft of the budget funds allocated to pay the state's defense order." According to the court's decision, 21 people were taken into custody, two others were sent to house arrest.