A criminal case was opened in the Irkutsk region on the fact of timber smuggling for 435 million rubles

“In total, from February to March 2021, through the customs border of Russia, participants in organized crime groups smuggled over 62,000 cubic meters of sawn softwood worth about 435 million rubles,” the report says.

On this fact, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Art.

226.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Smuggling of strategically important goods and resources by an organized group”).

Earlier, employees of the Kaliningrad Regional Customs, in the course of a joint operation with the Federal Security Service of Russia, stopped an attempt to smuggle amber to China.