Sudanese National Detained in Lithuania for Using Forged Travel Document

Lithuanian border guards intercepted a Sudanese man in the Joniškis district who was traveling by bus from Riga to Warsaw, attempting to enter Poland using a fraudulent travel document. The man had previously been denied refugee status in Latvia.

During a routine check of a bus traveling from Finland to Poland via Riga, border guards became suspicious of the foreign national. He presented an Italian-issued refugee travel document, but the photograph within the document clearly did not match his appearance. A subsequent check revealed a decision from the Latvian Migration Service denying the 24-year-old Sudanese citizen refugee or alternative status.

Suspecting the travel document belonged to someone else, border guards prevented the man from continuing his journey. A pre-trial investigation has been initiated in Lithuania for the theft or misuse of a document. The Sudanese national has been placed in a detention center and remanded in custody for one month.