“It is necessary to more seriously control the places of legal logging, especially not to allow illegal logging. We also revealed such facts in the Irkutsk region, when, apparently, they “covered” illegal logging with fires, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that careless handling of fire was a possible cause of natural fires in Siberia.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the authorities of the Irkutsk region and other regions that suffer from forest fires distorted statistics on the data on the time of elimination of fires.