Eight forest districts of Tatarstan have carried out Lesovoz Operation during a week
Lesovoz Operation is being conducted in the republic - the state forest inspectors together with the traffic police officers of the Republic of Tatarstan conduct raids on verification of accompanying documents for transportation of timber and sawn timber. With the aim of suppressing violations of forest legislation, employees of eight forest districts: Zainskiy, Aksubaevskiy, Lubyanskiy, Sabinskiy, Almetyevskoiy, Bolgarskiy, Elabuzhskiy, Zelenodolskiy – at once conducted raids on verification of accompanying documents for transportation of timber and sawn timber at mobile and stationary posts of the police stations. 24 vehicles carrying timber and lumber were inspected during the raid. Based on the results of the audit, two offenses of the relevant legislation were identified.
During the current year, 25 facts of violations were identified: transportation of sawn timber and timber without accompanying documents executed in the manner prescribed by the forestry legislation, as well as without registration of purchase and sale transactions in the system of LesEGAIS.
Administrative fine in such cases is from thirty thousand to fifty thousand rubles on officials, for legal entities - from five hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand rubles. And the wood is confiscated. According to the law, vehicles "that are tools for committing an administrative offense" may be also confiscated.
You can check the legality of the purchased timber on the Internet - on the site: rosleshoz.gov.ru, in the system LesEGAIS - a unified information system for wood accounting and transactions with it. Report on illegal tree cutting or other violations at the direct forest guard number - 8 (800) 100-94-00.