Seven men from Sri Lanka, Iraq and Syria were discovered by Romanian border police officers hiding in two trucks carrying goods through the Nadlac and Nadlac II border crossing points, according to a press release the Territorial Inspectorate of Border Police (ITPF) Oradea issued on Wednesday.

According to the source, six of them were in a truck carrying peanuts, and one was hidden in the driver’s cabin of another truck.

Thus, on Tuesday, at the Nadlac II Border Crossing Point, a Turkish citizen, at the wheel of a vehicle registered in Türkiye, presented himself for border formalities on the way out of the country. According to the accompanying documents, he was transporting peanuts on the Romania-Germany route.

„After carrying out a thorough control of the means of transportation, six foreign nationals were found hiding in the compartment intended for the transportation of goods. The persons were picked up and transported to the sector headquarters for investigations where, following the checks, the border police officers established that they are citizens of Iraq and Syria, aged between 18 and 33 years,” the ITPF release reads.

Also, at the Nadlac Border Crossing Point, border police officers carried out a border control on a truck driven by a Romanian citizen. As a result of the control carried out on the means of transportation, the officers found a foreign citizen in the driver’s rest area in the tractor cab. Preliminary checks established that he was 35 years old and from Sri Lanka.

The border police have started investigations into the alleged offenses of smuggling of migrants for the drivers and attempted fraudulent crossing of the state border for the citizens found hiding.

AGERPRES