A court in Togliatti found the former director of the Samarskaya Luka National Park guilty of large-scale fraud and abuse of power. TASS, citing the press service of the Samara district prosecutor’s office, was sentenced to five years in prison.
The director of the national park will serve in the general regime penal colony.
According to the version of the investigation approved by the court from 2012 to 2018, the director of the Samarskaya Luka Federal National Park stole funds from various commercial organizations that were used as charitable assistance for the needs and development of the park.
Work in a specially protected natural area was paid for from the budgetary and extra-budgetary funds of the institution designed for it. According to the conclusion of the court, 10 million rubles were stolen.
Also, the former director of the park used official vehicles and special equipment (KamAZ vehicles, an excavator) for his own purposes.
Capital construction and deforestation in nature reserves and specially protected areas of national parks will fall Under the ban, said the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov. It will also be impossible to change its boundaries. Ecologists note that natural areas in Russia are already officially protected, but in reality there are still many problems. How large-scale violations are in the material, which national parks suffer the most? “Newspapers.Ru”.