This was reported by the press-service of the State Technical University.

Law enforcement authorities seized the vessel "Bospor", under the flag of Moldova.

It is reported that on this vessel, Ukrainian seamen illegally crossed through closed border checkpoints to the territory of the Crimean peninsula.

In addition, over the past two years, more than a hundred inhabitants of the Kherson and Odesa oblasts have been transferred to the Crimea alone with the help of a detained vessel.

According to preliminary estimates, the cost of the seized property is approximately 44.5 million. Hryvnias.

At present, further measures are continuing in criminal proceedings.

Recall, as reported "URA-Inform", earlier in Odessa seized the ship for 11 million USD. During the investigation it was established that in 2014, on instructions of the former head of the enterprise, the self-propelled sea floating crane Chernomorets-27 was illegally put on its balance sheet, leased from the State Enterprise "The Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine" with the port of registration in the city of Yuzhny.