An individual was apprehended while attempting to cross from Finland into Russia on foot in October, the Finnish Border Guard said in a report released on Wednesday.
According to local newspaper Kuhmoinen, the would-be border-crosser was a young Bulgarian man.
The Kainuu Border Guard said that it intervened in a "suspected state border crime" in the eastern municipality of Kuhmo. The man was found near Jonkeri, a lake some five kilometres from the Russian border and 50km from the centre of Kuhmo.
Based on a tip-off from a member of the public, a Kainuu Border Guard patrol found a foreigner on foot "whose intention was to cross the national border illegally from Finland to Russia," officials said. They did not specify the date of the incident or details about the individual.
The man was detained and a preliminary investigation launched into the incident. The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) sent the man back to his home country and banned him from entering Finland for three years.
This was one of eight suspected crimes uncovered by the Kainuu Border Guard in October. Besides hunting violations, these included two minor state border offenses further north in Kuusamo, and unlicensed driver at the Vartius border crossing point, east of Kajaani.
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