In the Irkutsk region, a court sentenced members of a criminal group that illegally cut and transported timber for less than half a year, causing the state damage of nearly one and a half million rubles. The organizer forged cargo documents and arranged with wood processing companies to accept the timber, and the accomplices received a small reward for each log truck. In total, investigators proved the suspects involvement in 12 criminal episodes.
The Main Investigative Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk Region has proved the suspects’ involvement in 12 episodes of criminal activity.The organizer of the criminal group is 30-year-old Vladimir Vitko, previously convicted of giving a bribe.
The group, which included five people, operated in the Irkutsk Region since September last year and had at its disposal special equipment necessary for felling, skidding, and transporting timber. Its leader had an agreement with the heads of several wood-processing enterprises to accept the harvested timber. He was also engaged in falsifying waybills and preparing other documentation necessary for transporting the cargo.
Operating at several logging sites at once, the “crew” caused the state damage of almost one and a half million rubles in less than six months.
For each next timber truck loaded with selected standard pine, the leader paid each of his accomplices from one thousand to one and a half thousand rubles.
The Usolsky City Court sentenced Vitko to 3 years in prison, Pavel Petruk and Anton Khamzin to 2 years and 6 months in prison each. All of them will serve their sentences in a general-regime correctional colony. Ivan Kokourov and Maksim Stupin were given suspended sentences of two years in prison.
Based on materials from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk Region