This was reported in the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on transport in the Siberian Federal District.

“The investigation established the founder, director and chief surveyor of the mine, who entered into a conspiracy to illegally enrich themselves. To conceal the criminal activity, the managers of the mine created a subsidiary with the same name, which gave them the opportunity to reissue the license without participating in the auction, ”follows from the case file.

From March 2016 to December 2017, these persons carried out illegal coal mining, the income from which exceeded 307 million rubles.

At the same time, 3.66 hectares of trees were illegally cut down, the damage to the forest fund of Kuzbass amounted to almost 2 million rubles.

“Transport police found that coal exported by rail was mined outside a mining allotment defined by a valid license. The area of ​​illegal production exceeded 19 hectares with violation of license boundaries by 550 meters, ”the department noted.

The detainees were charged with carrying out entrepreneurial activities without a license, associated with the extraction of income in an especially large amount, as well as in the illegal cutting of forest plantations in an especially large amount by prior conspiracy.

Earlier in Transbaikalia, the activities of a criminal group suspected of smuggling timber worth more than 800 million rubles to China were suppressed.

Nevsky Novosti also reported that in the Leningrad Region they detained forestry leaders for a bribe for illegal logging.