In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the court toughened the sentence of a forester who sold valuable pine for bribes

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a court toughened the sentence for a forester who sold state forest. This was reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.

The supervisory agency recalled that in the summer of 2023, two forest rangers of the Sayano-Shushenskoye forestry organized a criminal scheme. For a bribe of 600 thousand rubles, they illegally legalized a plot of 300 cubic meters for loggers. m of valuable pine in a convenient place for its removal.

To design the felling they falsified documents in which lowerwhether volume and value of the forest stand. As a result, the state suffered damage amounting to 7.8 million rubles.lei. The court of first instance found them guilty of receiving a large bribe By paragraphs “a”, “c”, part 5, art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced to a fine of 2 million rubleslei.

“The prosecutor’s office appealed the “lenient” sentence, and the appeal agreed: such a punishment does not restore justice. The court changed the sentence against one of the convicts and sentenced him to 3 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony with deprivation of the right to hold leadership positions for 1 year. The court also confiscated the equivalent of a bribe,” clarified by the prosecutor's office.

Criminal case against another culprit is under review.

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