A 46-year-old man who flew from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Los Angeles, United States, without a ticket or passport has been arrested and faces up to five years in prison.
Sergei Vladimirovich Ochigava, 46, landed at Los Angeles Airport on November 4 on Scandinavian Airlines Flight 931, but he had no passport on him, which puzzled the BFI, according to reports the “New York Times”.
In Los Angeles, the mysterious traveler told police he had forgotten his passport on the plane, but according to the police report the man gave “false and misleading information about his trip to the United States.”
The mystery remains as to how Mr. Ochigava, on whom customs officers found Russian and Israeli identity cards, was able to travel without a passport or visa and without a ticket, hence the accusation of having traveled as a stowaway on a plane. .
The case of this forty-year-old who pleaded not guilty at the beginning of December will be before the court on December 26, according to the American media which specifies that the suspect is being held in pre-trial detention.
The man who told the FBI he had a doctorate in marketing economics and had worked in Russia as an economist did not say how he ended up in the Danish capital.
