In the Primorsky Territory, the police of the Pozharsky district arrested 12 foreign citizens who illegally felled trees and collected nuts, Max channel in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region. Russian newspaper the function of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Pozharsky" received a notification about illegal entry in the forest area of the Primorsky forest. A police officer immediately entered the scene. During the raid, the police officers together with the representatives of the branch of RNL-Perevalnensky of KSKU "Primorsky Forestry" discovered a forest camp and registered illegal entry of ash, linden, maple and yellow birch. The damage to the forest fund of the Russian Federation reached 76,869 rubles. The police arrested 12 citizens from East Asian countries. It turned out that foreigners were engaged in a mass collection of pine nuts and in order to arrange their camp they broke it on the lands of the state forest fund. All detainees were taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Pozharsky", where they conducted a fingerprint check and verification of operational accounting. Regarding foreign citizens, the police established protocols on an administrative offense under 2 of Article 18.8 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, which provides responsibility for violating the rules of entry into the Russian Federation or the regime of stay, expressed in the stubbornness of the purposes of entry and actually performed actions. The sanctions of this article provide for a fine of up to 5 thousand rubles and administrative expulsion from the country. An investigation is currently being carried out, and as a result a decision will be made to initiate a criminal case in connection with the Environmental Crime Committee.