According to the public indictment of the Sambir district prosecutor’s office, the court found two residents of the Sambir district guilty of the fact of illegal felling of trees, which caused serious consequences (Part 4 of Article 246 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
In particular, in the winter of last year, men illegally cut down 10 live fir trees, with a total cubic mass of 11.8 cubic meters, in the forest massif of the Galsillis DLHP located on the territory of the Turkiv City Council. m. Such actions caused damage to the interests of the state in the amount of 137.8 thousand hryvnias.
Already in the summer of this year, “loggers” were transporting felled trees in a truck that had no license plates.
By the verdict of the Turkiv District Court, the defendants were sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment with the application of Art. 75 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – released from serving the sentence with a probationary period of 1 year.
The confiscated forest and car are confiscated as state income and will be transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces.
In addition, prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit against one of the convicts for compensation for the damage caused.
The pre-trial investigation was carried out by the investigators of the Sambir Regional Police Department of the State Police in the Lviv region.
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Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office