In the Irkutsk region, a local resident is accused of smuggling timber worth 350 million rubles. This has been reported area “Ministry of the Interior Media.
According to investigators, in August 2014, the manager of one of the enterprises in the regional headquarters, whose activities are related to the wholesale trade of timber products, signed an international contract with a foreign company for the sale of sawn timber to the countries. East Asia.
To do this, with the help of a front organization, he prepared fictitious documents on the legality of logging and the legality of timber ownership, on the basis of which he obtained permission to export 4.5 thousand cubic meters of timber. Irina Volk, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, said that she thus earned about 19 million rubles.
For two years, according to the same scheme, he received illegal income of more than 330 million rubles. The Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasized that in total more than 84 thousand cubic meters of wood were smuggled out of the Russian Federation.
In addition, the accused illegally reimbursed more than 4.5 million rubles of value added tax from the budget of the Russian Federation by submitting false documents to the tax office.
Volk added that currently the criminal case against the man has been sent to the Irkutsk Kirovsky District Court for consideration on the merits.
In October last year, law enforcement arrested Two entrepreneurs suspected of exporting about 50,000 cubic meters of timber worth 315 million rubles abroad.