The five men were arrested on November 28 in a forest near Vyborg, by Russia's border with Finland.
A conman built a fake frontier post in Russia to convince a group of four they had been smuggled into Finland.
A file picture shows a real border crossing between Finland and Russia in the southern Finnish border town of Imatra. A Russian man has been arrested after he set up a fake border crossing and charged migrants money for crossing what they believed to be into the European Union.Russian border guards detained all five men on November 28. Video of the arrests was shared on Russian social media showing the men in parkas and hats in the darkness near fir trees with their hands up, the BBC reported.
"The fraudster really got into the character for his role, going as far as making and installing fake border posts in a forest," according to the Tass news agency.RT reported that violating Russia's border is a criminal offense and can result in a jail sentence of up to six years. However as no actual border was crossed, the men got away with an unspecified fine.
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