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. it's a woman, our whole arboretum. can close like this i'm changing your eared puppy for your quiet life. almost half of the irkutsk forest is exported. mostly. these are not processed

tree trunks. this is beneficial for buyers, because customs duties, in this case, are minimal, and from next year, the export of so -called round timber will be banned altogether. so now businessmen. on which tens of kilometers of wagons are now in the so-called round untreated forest in the summer of 2021, the entrepreneur is trying send it overseas as much as possible. around irkutsk, there are 35 such dead ends everywhere. giant logs are sawn to four or six meters in length, then stacked, sorted and loaded wagons, and especially valuable species, for example, cedar, into containers. after that, entrepreneurs declare the goods to the customs authorities. it is clear that with such volumes it is simply

impossible to control everything, your employees inspect not 100% weighs this, which goes through irkutsk no, of course. it's impossible, physically physically. we cannot watch it. uh, on average, about 55% of the funds daily. these are containers of this wagons specifically with roundwood timber. how does it detect intruders who are trying to provide false information? employees of the irkutsk post actively use the so -called customs surveillance . a representative of the department may be present when the goods are loaded, recounted and even record what is happening on video surveillance of the visible part, we assume that there may be a violation of their rules - this is the first the queue for the volume of the declared timber during the declaration, let's say 80 cubic meters is declared for larch, in fact we see that 82 cubes are large

in general on average, and per cubic meter, uh, let's say rough lumber products. e, fine e is about 10,000 rubles today. for one year. what amounts are entrepreneurs sending trains of 100 wagons trying to hide, and what are they risking? if the employees of the department notice the violation, then a customs inspection procedure is assigned, which is long and painstaking on one of we have been to such events. this inspection was appointed based on the results of the customs observation, and as a result of which an official of the irkutsk

customs post. a-a, it was established that the information declared about did not correspond with the material actually loaded with timber, and in the car, that is, only a bar was declared, and in fact there was also a roughly edged bar saw products that, from january 2022, will be banned for export from the russian federation here in this case, what threatens the entrepreneur, or administrative fine or criminal liability. today it is no longer possible to reach an agreement with the customs regarding the forest ; say bribe money offer me eyes. no, this never happened. after the liquidation of the bank of black lumberjacks in the irkutsk region, the role of the customs

authorities has seriously increased; now it depends only on them. what income will the state receive from the sale of russian forest abroad at the end of the twentieth year by employees of a piece of customs, possibly 32 criminal cases, uh, preventing the export of e forests worth more than a billion rubles abroad. for the first half of 2021, the customs authorities of siberia may have 52 criminal cases related to the illegal movement of timber and timber . well, as far as the problem was for the forests in siberia, i can say that the main problem regions are the irkutsk region, the krasnoyarsk territory, the tomsk region, for the first half of the year we sat down to export, uh, to forests or materials for almost 160 million rubles. and all illegally exported timber

fixed in the amount of 476 million rubles. and this is the moscow region, of course, one cannot compare the local forests with the siberian taiga, but even here, hundreds of kilometers from the capital, large-scale forest wars unfolded. residents of the russian region turned to our editorial office and said that unknown people were brazenly stealing the forest, we went to the place of events in the village of nikolskoye defenders of nature. they vied with each other to tell us about the emergency and we accidentally saw that we had, uh, trucks, these timber trucks passing by and then we found out what was inside

forests. uh, cut down illegally. we called the police on every car. we stopped, we staged a picket every day, that is, during the day. we even left on duty . the police came and checked with them. the documents are all right, as they said, the car was released. this is very thought leading. they say, we will drink anyway, in any way, and we don’t see when the first car was not allowed. she stood here for a long time. so they understood that we would stand. they began to carry between. over there in the clearing all to throw off. we decided to see what is happening in the forest, a local activist volunteered to accompany us. ivan popov walked about a kilometer. the road is narrow and meanders, but apparently trucks have been walking along it quite recently in the pits

, slabs are neatly laid so that multi-ton vehicles do not get stuck in the mud. finally, we got to the place, cutting down heavy equipment on the site is no longer commercial timber. managed to get on the ground. only a few dozen trunks remained, and then the most interesting thing turned out. turns out. according to the documents. we are generally not in the forest according to the documents. we here we see according to the documents the field land of meaning, but in fact we see here there is no age-old forest, which is 70,100 years old and more. maybe the policemen of the russian region, who came at the call of citizens, were guided by the same documents, then everything falls into place in the field of a century-old forest, there can be no, and accordingly there is nothing to saw. so there was no slavery. we are going to the village,

brynkovo, on the outskirts, the sawmill is in full swing and the wood is neatly stacked day and night. only the workers of this forestry enterprises turned out to be extremely shy at the sight of the camera of the tv channel rossiya, they immediately stop working, turn off the lights and scatter. who goes where? why are you running away? light turned off. you just worked, just hello

we actually bought a forest in ourselves, and you have the owner’s documents, i have a question. we go further, it turns out that there are many such sawmills in the small russian region of the moscow region . this village of luninka, copses working change house audible voices, representatives of the forest mafia probably spend the night here come closer and try to start a conversation. hello, good evening.

this is our earth, this is our fox, and we did not give them to anyone. we will stand within the law and fight for it. let's return to the krasnoyarsk territory, let us remind you that the local policemen uncovered a cunning and

intricate scheme of theft, forest dealers, using forged documents, harvested wood, supposedly for the needs of citizens, but in reality they simply sold and stuffed their own pockets with money, and this criminal community was led by a former official from the small siberian city ​​of kansk andrey in 2016, sotnikov worked for the administration of the kalinovsky district in the area of ​​street relations and, due to his activities, had access to the bases, including the bases of the cadastral chamber. accordingly, after his dismissal, he had the opportunity to view the cadastral numbers of the forest plots he needed, according to the investigation, sotnikov made a fake seal and stamped the necessary documents for subsequent transfer to the forestries. moreover, each contract was drawn up on behalf of a specific resident of the district; for this, the

centurion each time required various data passport number snils information from the tax service. also, papers confirming that a citizen has a land plot. former official. he recruited his old acquaintances, local entrepreneurs gennady obukhov and alexandra ivanov, to work. they were looking for people who were ready to provide their data for a scam for a small premium ; after that, sotnikov collected documents and their manufacturer already in the amount of 50,000 rubles. that is, the cost of one package reached 100,000 rubles. according to the investigation, sotnikov obukhov and ivanov concocted several hundred of such packages of documents; hands went to the territory of seven districts of the krasnoyarsk territory, and the damage to the country's forest fund, according to preliminary

estimates, amounted to 140 million rubles. taking into account the presented materials of operational-search activities, the scale of the disaster. yes, we see that seven districts of the eastern group of the krasnoyarsk territory are involved. uh, the number of participants. uh, more than 15 people have been installed to date. we have accepted the decision to initiate a criminal case under article 210 of the cone the organization of a criminal community participation in it the arrests immediately followed the bars turned out to be andrey sotnikov for a long time, illegal lumberjacks were identified; individuals who produced forged documents were identified; and officials were identified

who, in fact, a certain star turned a blind eye more than forty bulls were simultaneously carried out, a large amount of money was seized from illegally cut down forests. technicians in order to understand this difficult matter as accurately as possible, we met with all the arrested members of the group, we started with the lumberjack stepan koshev, his team worked on the territory of the ilan region people. help is needed there. to us alone people there, well, to prepare the forest, there to cut lumber, right away, as it were, well, so that people want to build, not everyone has the desire people line up, but not everyone has sawmills to cut to make. it was as if i, well, rendered such services to people, as if stepan koshev tried in every possible way to convince us that he had not committed anything illegal,

but in the end he admitted that he was well acquainted with gennady obukhov and even received money from him. he contacted me. here i have people who have permission, there for the construction of a harvest for others, no matter how they need the forest, no matter how much they need money. i say, well, okay, and here is my a-and they gave out the forest. i am this people through well he gave the money there in the case it is written. how much money did you give away? i gave something 50,000 arithmetic is not difficult, even if we take the minimum cost of a cube of wood 3,000 rubles. it turns out that from each contract for the harvesting of 150 m³ of wood. obukhov got 300,000 clean pains. the next character in forest history is businessman gennady obukhov. he completely denies any relationship with logging sites and says that

he dealt only with papers, according to obukhov , from each transaction. he received only 28 thousand rubles. i don’t know, i haven’t multiplied, and finally, the main character of the criminal community, andrey sotnikov, he is the president of the kansk sampa federation, a master of sports, a multiple champion of russia, says that his whole life has been connected with sports. and now he trains the kids, he told about his native city, kansk, a very long city, the kids, that is, he wanted to. uh, we have a teacher training college. that's the same. i wanted to help arrange boys for girls

to study, and for them to study was not a dream. i wanted to build a gym, but, to unfortunately happened. this is not expensive, sotnikov’s skill considers it a misunderstanding that he ended up in a pre-trial detention center, they say. which one is the leader of the criminal community? after all, he allegedly devotes all his free time to sports and children. and i will say more. i graduated from the institute. well, not with honors, of course, but i passed the state exams. excellent. yes, i defended the criminal law under article 159. i defended my diploma with dignity. i think that you know everything. well, exactly. well, maybe. yes , sotnikov changed a lot of jobs, once he headed a collection agency, then local business support fund, and then got a job in the administration. kanska is now willingly commenting on his current position. do you think. yes, of course, i'm not

guilty of absolutely nothing. absolutely right, no paper at all. here is the lease agreement and building permit. i wo n’t tell you the exact time, because i don’t remember, to be honest, when i did the first, why in order to earn at least a little money and develop sports, its radical district, of course, no one argues with the fact that the former the official at his own expense sent the kids to the competition, bought them a uniform and paid for the treatment. but the question is where do these funds come from? how much money settled in the pockets of sotnikov himself is still to be clarified by the investigation, so far one thing can be said with certainty a frigate similar to the one led by stepan koshev andrey sotnikov

had dozens in the krasnoyarsk territory of an authoritative athlete, many knew and were afraid, at least those loggers who avoided criminal prosecution, while sotnikova agrees to speak only closed face. it was only necessary to end up talking, but it was not such that right there there was some kind of frequency, or something else, you bought documents. at sotnikov how much did a package of documents cost so that your brigade could work in the forest absolutely 40.000 the investigation of a criminal case on an organized criminal community, which, according to the police , was led by a former official, lawyer and sportsman andrei sotnikov, is in full swing. at present , we have already involved, except for, but three persons 11 more people responsible to him or the

producers who carried out illegal fish. about forty- fifty are read locally. measures are not enough to solve all the problems of the russian forest, of course, the order that has now been established is extremely important, but the role of those people who will have to restore the plundered forest expanses is no less important. our countries. they must be experts in their field. these are now being prepared for the example of the st. petersburg state forestry university the oldest russian educational institution where he

studies the problems of the forest. the department issues orders for different years from 15 to say. maybe thirty is all levels of bachelors and masters and, uh, today there is a demand for specialists. uh, both in the forestry and in other organizations related to weight, this is either a joint enterprise and forest protection centers that monitor the condition of forests. scientists know that the restoration of the russian forest is a long and very costly business, but this must be done for future generations. it takes, as a rule, well, from 60 to 100 years the new generation of the forest, that is, the arborist who is planting fruits today. yes, when the state grows, he most likely will not see. it will already be his, maybe. children and grandchildren

to finish work. the problem of the forest is also relevant today in those regions of the country that were considered non-forest only yesterday. here, for example, the kaliningrad region in terms of forests is siberia and it has nothing to compare not the forest region. we are not siberia and where there is a large amount of forest. in our country, the russian one is about 12-13%, and all forests are protective. not here, solid circles. there is no. e so -called industrial try, each cube of oak, birch, pine, aspen goes into some kind of product that is exported. here the calculation is taken away, whether the calculation of the neighbor is collected almost completely. well, probably up to 95 percent. this is probably why modern high-tech enterprises appear here outside the forest of the kaliningrad region, which create unique wood products.

we went to one of these production baltic forest company back in 2018 there was an abandoned industrial area. now the shop is unrecognizable at the enterprise with more than 200 people, decent wages. all accounting white products are made from oak, birch, aspen and linden, a serious task is not just to sell raw materials, but to introduce deep processing . products are coming from a strange european union, where there is very high competition and quality requirements. the idea of ​​processing at this enterprise is the processing of all wood, good, bad wood, all is processed illegally, and illegally blanks. we don't have it, we don't even

think about it in our heads. we understand that to develop and i think that it is not legally possible to get state support. this is a completely new drying complex, which we put into operation. uh, just a month ago. this is an example of partnership with the state. 50% of this drying complex was financed through the vostok program and 50% we invested our own funds. this is going on drying wood cycle big 100 days remotely we are looking after programs how it works for quality. and it restores forests so as not to leave behind only stumps. every year , specialists plant new trees on 143 hectares of land. yes, the photos taken from space

will be visible for many years to come, the damage caused by bandits and pests in the far east and siberia, but work to restore forest resources is already underway in the russian government, they expect to reach such a balance in 2024 instead of every cut down or burned time forest fire tree will be planted. indeed, well, somehow it became more decent, it seems that, so to speak, they stopped chopping everything so insolently there, it seems they stopped in a completely barbaric way. it's all from here without any taxes. uh, take out the round timber. wherever there is china, japan or somewhere else, it is almost impossible to turn back, even at the end of the tunnel. here in the form of light will be just the solution of these

related issues, in particular. in this case, with timber smuggling. this process is irreversible.

now hardly anyone is working. such we saw the problem of the forest industry. this was our investigation from different regions of the country, russia 24.

and the main event to this minute is in our news release of the apu unit. today , donetsk and other settlements of the republic were shelled at least 47 times, strikes are recorded local control and coordination center gorlovka and hay mineral, as well as areas in the north-west and in the center of donetsk petrovsky kuibyshevsky kirovsky kievsky voroshilovsky kalininsky shelling was launched with shells nato caliber 155 mm, and from lugansk people's republic together.