This is stated on the website of the regional branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“The police established that between December 2018 and January 2019, men born in 1989, 1988 and 1982, acting as a group of persons by prior conspiracy, committed illegal logging in the territory of the Tinskoye lesnichestvo state complex reserve,” the statement says.
It is clarified that the attackers had permits, however, they "committed logging in excess of the established norm." The damage from their actions amounted to more than 10 million rubles.
“In total, more than 1200 cubic meters were cut down by intruders. different species: fir, spruce, aspen, larch, ”the department said.
A criminal case under part 3 of art. 260 of the Criminal Code of Russia (illegal felling of forest stands).
Earlier in the Far East, criminal cases were initiated on the organization of a criminal community involved in the smuggling of endangered species of wood.
On January 27, a former deputy of the Krasnoyarsk Territory was sentenced for illegal logging. Four days earlier, a criminal case had been opened in the Irkutsk Region regarding illegal logging in the Taishet district.
In November 2019, two criminal cases were opened by the Irkutsk Customs regarding the smuggling of lumber in China on a large scale. In the same month, law enforcement agencies in Siberia detained two local residents suspected of large-scale smuggling of timber from Russia abroad.
In October 2019, Irkutsk Customs opened a criminal case on smuggling of lumber to Afghanistan.
On June 6, 2019, in Moscow, FSB officers detained Sergey Sheverda, Minister of the Forestry Complex of the Irkutsk Region. He is suspected of abuse of power. According to law enforcement agencies, he authorized illegal logging on an area of 120 hectares in the Tukolon nature reserve. The amount of damage is estimated at 748 million rubles.
Details are in the material RT.