Seaside gang headed by businessman

Participants seaside organized group to stand trial for illegal logging. The damage to the state, estimated at almost 11 million rubles. The defendants could face up to six years in prison
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As reported
Press Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on DFO
, Operative support of the case was carried out police cupola MIA Russian Far East. During the event, held jointly with the staff of the Interior Ministry of Defense «Lesozavodsky» and the Forestry Department of the Primorsky Territory, had suppressed the activity of the two teams to carry out illegal logging. «Black loggers» interested only trees of valuable species, the most sought-after for export to China, including oak, ash.

It turned out that the loggers were hired by a businessman from Lesozavodsk. He was the founder of the company that leased land in several thousand hectares in one of the districts of Primorye. Separate teams of loggers working there legally. However, investigators have information about the shady side of the merchant. Soon, he was arrested on suspicion of illegal timber felling outside the areas allocated to it.

— Was the arrest of the forest machines — crawler tractors and trucks fitted with crane beams. Illegally sawn timber, in the amount of nearly 120 cubic meters, was placed in custody — says
Police Colonel Alexander Sarkisov, head of CFP-1 MOI Russia by DFO
. — In addition, during the search of the apartment owner was found and seized information media, business and financial documentation and a very large amount of money in U.S. dollars.

Currently, the investigation mnogoepizodnogo criminal case under part 3 of Article 260 of the Criminal Code «Illegal felling of forest plantations, done in an organized group» is completed. A criminal case has been referred to the court. The sanction of Article provides for a maximum punishment of imprisonment for a term of 6 years.