Mosgordum decided to dactyloscopy all foreigners arriving in Russia

At one of the closest meetings of the Moscow City Duma, it is planned to consider the legislative initiative providing for the obligatory dactyloscopy of all foreigners arriving in Russia, its author Yuri Popov told Interfax.

According to Popov, today the fingerprints upon arrival in Russia are required to leave 16 categories of foreign citizens, and so far this procedure has not been distributed only to citizens temporarily arriving in Russia. Meanwhile, according to Popov, it is under this category that many illegal migrants and migrant workers fall.

"Having legitimized the dactyloscopy for this category of citizens, we will be able to get an additional lever of influence on them. If this person refuses to pass dactyloscopy, then it can be sent from Russia completely on legal grounds," Popov noted.

The deputy believes that the adoption of this bill will spur the federal authorities to update the technical base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Today, there are already special scanners invented by our engineers, who allow you to take fingerprints from citizens in a short time, without forcing them to get dirty in paint," Popov noted.

According to the deputy, the equipment of all entrances to Moscow with similar equipment will require 112-113 million rubles, on a Russian scale, such a procedure will cost 2 billion 733 million rubles.

Popov expressed an opinion according to which suppliers of such equipment should take place a tender and only the best and most effective equipment should enter the service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In turn, the chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Vladimir Platonov, refrained from assessing this legislative initiative.

"So far, there are many more questions than answers. For example, whether the obligatory dactyloscopy will become an obstacle to the development of tourism in our country. I think that for the effective work of the police at the entrance to Russia, you just need to allocate money to acquire normal fingerprinting equipment," Platonov said.