The Security Council of the Russian Federation noted the reduction in illegal logging in the Far East – RIA Novosti

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VLADIVOSTOK, August 26 – RIA Novosti. made by the State measures helped to reduce by 30% the amount of illegal logging forests in the Far East, but the number of economic crimes in lesooborota growing, said Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.

“In the light of the decisions taken in the industry began to appear on some positive developments. to stabilize the volumes of harvested wood. In the Khabarovsk Territory and Primorye, Amur and Sakhalin regions implemented 11 investment projects in forest development with an investment volume of these projects about 43 billion rubles. Accepted in recent years measures timber industry have reduced by 30% the amount of illegal logging in the Far Eastern Federal District “, – Patrushev said at a meeting in Vladivostok.

According to him, the industry is still a number of challenges. Chief among them – the lack of effectiveness of the state management and expansion of criminal redistribution of profits to the detriment of the budgets. This, according to Secretary of the Russian Security Council, is due to the lack of proper accountability of public authorities for the results of forest management, which reduces the control in the field of forest relations.

“There is a growing number of economic crimes in lesooborota and field blanks. High shadow incomes from illegal timber trade contribute to the corruption of the industry “- said Patrushev.