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The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) announced that since the beginning of the year, 139 builders from Uzbekistan had received a deportation order because of forged education documents, reports Yle.

According to the documents provided by the workers from Uzbekistan to get a job in Finland, it turned out that they had completed the courses at a Soviet-era training centre known as TMGS. Migri asked for information about the school at the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Latvia and received a response that the institution was closed in 1993. According to the documents, the Uzbeks left that they were completing the plant’s courses from 1997 to 2016.

An investigation into the fake documents began in October of the Finnish border guards, after receiving information from an informant. According to lead investigator Juho Vanhatalo, the quality of the fake was not good. Education certificates were printed on an ordinary printer, and some documents even had serial numbers. Print impressions were also printed on the printer. Ten people were fined for fake documents. No evidence of manufacturers was found.

The discovered certificates are fakes of secondary importance, Vanhatalo said. "If these were high-quality false passports or these papers would be used to commit a crime, the situation would be completely different", - he noted.

According to Migri, a total of about 400 fakes were found. As a result of the investigation, approximately 240 Uzbeks were denied permission to reside on the basis of a working contract.

"The Qazaq Times"