In the Moscow region, penalties were imposed in case of illegal cutting down of a healthy forest under the guise of a sick one – members of the organized criminal community will be sent to prison. The newspaper reports”Kommersant”
Among those in the dock were former senior officials responsible for forestry in the Moscow region.
“Former general director of Tsentrleskhoz Oleg Zhigarev and former director of the Vinogradovsky branch of Mosoblles Boris Kuznetsov were sentenced to six years of special imprisonment,” the publication reported.
In addition to these officials, Plitinvest general director Nikolai Shevchenko, who was accused of participating in an organized crime group and numerous fraud cases, was also convicted. However, Shevchenko signed a pre-trial cooperation agreement with the prosecutor’s office.
Before this the Russians reminded About the penalty for illegally cutting down the Christmas tree.
Previously named amount Forests in Russia have been cut down illegally.