A 46-year-old man who flew from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Los Angeles, USA, 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 Scandinavian Airlines Flight 931 on November 4 but did not have a passport with him, confusing the BFI, according to reports in 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 provided “false and misleading information about his trip to the United States.”
It remains a mystery 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, which is why the accusation is that he stowed away on an airplane.
The case of the forty-year-old, who pleaded not guilty in early December, will be heard in court on December 26, according to American media reports, which indicate that the suspect is in custody.
The man, who told the FBI he had a doctorate in marketing economics and worked as an economist in Russia, did not say how he ended up in the Danish capital.