Criminal logging in those districts of Primorye, which is traditionally considered «forest» is a business, which employs hundreds of people. Only often the «black» loggers worked out the whole technology of avoiding responsibility: some people felled forest, other, arrived a little later, take for sale as would be «tied» to the forest. Stop this «forest courier»and his defense: «I teased, tools no, simply output «no man\’s land». In 2012 Дальнереченская interregional Prosecutor\’s office invented the antidote from such activities. As has told to the correspondent of RIA «VladNews» senior assistant Prosecutor of Primorsky Krai Elena Telegina, Дальнереченской Interdistrict Prosecutor\’s office is realized the possibility of criminal liability of persons for the embezzlement of wood (article 158 of the criminal code). So, in June of last year in the quarter 37 Веденкенского divisional forestry Дальнереченского branch КГКУ «Primorsk forestry detected illegal forest felling on a large scale. At the scene was detained Mr. O., who with the help of a tractor dt-75» was carried out by skidding of illegally felled timber. The man explained that he was trying to just take out the forest, which was sawn unknown persons even before his arrival. In connection with the fact that the pre-trial investigation had not obtained any evidence linking the detainee to the illegal tree felling, on the initiative of the Prosecutor in respect of the latter materials were separated for bringing to criminal responsibility for an attempted theft of forests (H. 3 tbsp. 30 PM 1 tbsp. 158 of the criminal code), as well as on the fact of destruction of undergrowth and saplings in the implementation hauling the timber (item «g» \’clock 2 item 260 of the criminal code). Seized wood in the framework of the preliminary investigation in the criminal case initiated as evidence and sent for implementation to the state revenue. The criminal case was sent to court for consideration on the merits. Following its judicial review in respect to the person convicted. In total for the period 2012-2013 the Interdistrict Prosecutor filed another 9 similar criminal cases, according to the results of consideration of which, courts convicted.
Egor Ivanov