Prosecutor General’s Office fights illegal cutting of trees

Based on citizens’ appeals, information from the media and competent state bodies, the Prosecutor General’s Prosecutor General conducted the facts of illegal cutting and capturing forest sites in the territories of the Kurdamirsky, Dzalilabad, Lerik and Gakhsky regions.

It was found that on the territory of the State Forest Fund in the Kurdamirsky, Masallinsky, Dzalilabad and Lenkoransky districts of Azerbaijan 130 trees and 95 bushes were cut down, as a result of unauthorized seizure of a land plot in the Gakhi district of the ecosystem, a damage was caused in the amount of more than 24 thousand . Manatov.

Criminal cases under Articles 188.1 (violation of ownership, use and land lease), 259.1 and 259.2.4 (illegal logging) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation were instituted on these facts and were sent to the relevant internal affairs bodies for the investigation.