In the Primorsky territory, police officers from the Pozharsky municipal district arrested 12 foreign citizens who were illegally uprooting trees and collecting pine nuts, the Max channel of the regional Ministry of the Interior reports. © Rossiyskaya Gazeta The duty unit of the Pozharsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia received a notification of illegal logging in the forest area of ​​the Primorsky Forestry. A police squad immediately went to the scene of the incident. During the raid, police officers, together with representatives of the Verkne-Pravlensky branch of the state public institution Primorskoye Lesnichestvo, discovered a forest camp and documented the illegal felling of ash, elm, linden, maple and yellow birch. The damage caused to the forest fund of the Russian Federation amounted to 76,869 rubles. In the camp, the police arrested 12 citizens from one of the East Asian countries. It turned out that the foreigners were engaged in a huge collection of pine nuts and to set up their camp they set it up on the lands of the State Forestry Fund. All the detainees were taken to the Pozharsky Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, where they were fingerprinted and checked for operational records. In relation to foreign citizens, police officers made administrative violation reports according to Part 2 of Article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which establishes liability for violation of the rules of entry into the Russian Federation or the residence regime, manifested in a discrepancy between the purposes of entry and the activities actually performed.

In the Primorsky territory, police officers from the Pozharsky municipal district arrested 12 foreign citizens who were illegally uprooting trees and collecting pine nuts, the Max channel of the regional Ministry of the Interior reports. © Rossiyskaya Gazeta The duty unit of the Pozharsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia received a notification of illegal logging in the forest area of ​​the Primorsky Forestry. A police squad immediately went to the scene of the incident. During the raid, police officers, together with representatives of the Verkne-Pravlensky branch of the state public institution Primorskoye Lesnichestvo, discovered a forest camp and documented the illegal felling of ash, elm, linden, maple and yellow birch. The damage caused to the forest fund of the Russian Federation amounted to 76,869 rubles. In the camp, the police arrested 12 citizens from one of the East Asian countries. It turned out that the foreigners were engaged in a huge collection of pine nuts and to set up their camp they set it up on the lands of the State Forestry Fund. All the detainees were taken to the Pozharsky Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, where they were fingerprinted and checked for operational records. In relation to foreign citizens, police officers made administrative violation reports according to Part 2 of Article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which establishes liability for violation of the rules of entry into the Russian Federation or the residence regime, manifested in a discrepancy between the purposes of entry and the activities actually performed.

The sanctions of this article stipulate a fine of up to five thousand rubles and administrative expulsion from the country. An investigation is currently underway, based on the results of which a decision will be made to open a criminal case in connection with the commission of an environmental crime.