On Apil 15, 2023, the National Unit for the Suppression of Migrant Smuggling and Human Trafficking at the Criminal Investigations Department of the Department for Suppression of Organized and Serious Crime, in cooperation with the Department of Special Police Operations, the Department of Criminal Police, the Regional Center for Border Affairs West, the Ohrid Police Department and inspectors from the State Labor Inspectorate conducted a raid in two hospitality facilities on the territory of Ohrid.
During the control, 12 foreign citizens from Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Albania were found, five of them without registered residence in the country. Irregularities have also been found by the state labor inspectorate, which will be sanctioned accordingly.
The foreign nationals were handed over to the Department for Foreigners and Readmission at Regional Center for Border Affairs West for further procedure. The five persons were brought before a Judge for misdemeanors and, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Foreigners, they were sentenced to a fine and the measure of expulsion of a foreigner from the country.