A Toronto-based consultant who helped dozens of Russians immigrate to Canada by pretending they were persecuted Jews pleaded guilty and was placed on one year of strict probation. Galina Slipachenko admitted that she traveled to Russia and advised clients to obtain visitors’ visas for the United States and then make refugee claims at the Canadian border.
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