On the morning of November 24, Russian police conducted a raid to check migrants working at the warehouse of the online retailer Wildberries in the city of Elektrostal, Moscow region.
"Interfax, citing a law enforcement source, reported that police officers were looking for those who had recently received Russian citizenship and were identifying "military service evaders." According to the agency's source, the "evaders" were served with summonses.
The Baza telegram channel also wrote, citing eyewitnesses, that the police were "catching illegal migrants and those who had recently received a Russian passport."
According to the Shot Telegram channel, about 150 people were detained during the raid.
According to the Wildberries press service, 8,000 warehouse employees could not start working because of the checks. A break of a few hours in the warehouse's operation threatens "billions of dollars in losses for entrepreneurs during the high season," the online retailer's press service emphasized.
Such raids on enterprises employing a large number of migrants have been taking place for several months in different cities of Russia.
For example, in early August, police raided a vegetable warehouse in St. Petersburg and took about 100 migrants who had recently taken Russian citizenship to the military commissariat.
In October, police raided a mosque in Kotelniki near Moscow and detained parishioners. Among the detainees was Mamut Useinov, a finalist of the show "Drinking the Star," who said in his telegram channel that under the pretext of checking documents, the men in the mosque were put on a bus and taken to the military commissariat in Lyubertsy.
Background. As a reminder, the Russian marketplace Wildberries has changed its name to Yagodki.