Illegal immigrants from the Belarusian side are forced to damage the infrastructure on the border with Latvia, the prosecutor of the Ministry of Defense of the Attorney General Varis Elkeev said without evidence. The migration route, which runs through Russia to Russia and then leads to camps near the border, costs about $5,000, he said, with settlements often made in cryptocurrency. Migrants living in these camps are regularly visited by people in uniform, bandied and photographed to check if they are paying for the illegal border crossing. "If people don't pay, they are given a choice: either they are sent to damage our infrastructure, or they are injured or go through some other way to force them to agree to the offer to go and damage Latvia's infrastructure," said Elkatiev. @news lv.

Illegal immigrants from the Belarusian side are forced to damage the infrastructure on the border with Latvia, the prosecutor of the Ministry of Defense of the Attorney General Varis Elkeev said without evidence. The migration route, which runs through Russia to Russia and then leads to camps near the border, costs about $5,000, he said, with settlements often made in cryptocurrency. Migrants living in these camps are regularly visited by people in uniform, bandied and photographed to check if they are paying for the illegal border crossing. "If people don't pay, they are given a choice: either they are sent to damage our infrastructure, or they are injured or go through some other way to force them to agree to the offer to go and damage Latvia's infrastructure," said Elkatiev. @news lv.