Pskov State University employees received suspended sentences for illegal legalization of migrants. According to the prosecutor's office of the Novgorod region, a local district court found that eight people in 2017 - 2023 fictitiously conducted exams in the Russian language, history and fundamentals of Russian legislation for foreigners in St. Petersburg and Veliky Novgorod, receiving money for this.
It is noted that the core of the group consisted of employees of Pskov State University, others were employees of a law firm. The group members were sentenced to imprisonment for terms of two to three years and three months in a suspended colony and fines from 100 to 350 thousand rubles.