FBI investigating how Russian man flew from Europe to LAX with no ticket, passport

[mountaineer]

FBI investigating how Russian man flew from Europe to LAX with no ticket, passport
ByABC7.com staff KABC
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 1:31AM

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The FBI is investigating a bizarre incident in which a Russian man flew from Europe to Los Angeles without a passport, visa - or even a plane ticket.

How exactly it happened remains a mystery, as the man claimed to be confused and couldn't remember getting on the plane or how he was able to get past security and board the flight without documents.

The federal complaint filed in Los Angeles charges Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava with being a stowaway on an aircraft.

The FBI says Ochigava landed at LAX on Nov. 4 on a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen. ...

The FBI will get right on that, as soon as they're done rounding up Jan. 6 protesters, traditional Catholics, military veterans and conservative Christians.

[mountaineer]

A man without a passport or a plane ticket managed to board a Scandinavian Airlines flight in Copenhagen, Denmark, last month and arrive, undetected, in Los Angeles, California, before being discovered and detained, and later indicted. 

The man, Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava, talked with federal officials, with the assistance of a Russian-speaking federal agent on Nov. 5, one day after his flight arrived in Los Angeles, according to The New York Times.

His story raised more questions than it answered, as he claimed that he hadn’t slept in three days, that he “did not remember how he got on the plane” and “would not explain how or when he got to Copenhagen, or what he was doing there,” according to an FBI affidavit.

He also claimed that he had a Ph.D. in economics and marketing, that he had worked as an economist in Russia years ago, and that he “did not understand what is going on.” A search of his bag turned up a Russian identification card, good for travel within Russia, and an Israeli identification card but no international passport, which is required for entry into the U.S. ...

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[Fishrrman]

I read elsewhere that guys like this will show up with a valid passport -- but, with a bogus visa.

Once on board, they tear up and flush both passport and visa down the toilet.

When questioned, they "know nothing".

Rather than be immediately sent back to from where they came, the government lets them stay...