The Berane police filed criminal charges against PV and S.Ć., employees of the Forestry Administration, on suspicion that they enabled an unknown person or several of them to carry out illegal logging in the Piševska rijeka region, thereby causing material damage to the Forestry Administration in the amount of 35.841 euros.
The Police Directorate said that this action was carried out in continuation of activities to suppress criminal acts in the field of environmental crime - illegal activities in forestry and the so-called "forest devastation", where forms of corrupt activities were also detected - which are defined as national priorities.
PV and S.Ć are charged with the criminal offense of abuse of official position.
"It is suspected that PV, as the head of the Andrijevica Regional Unit in the Forestry Administration, and S.Ć., as the forester, in the period from February to November 2023, using their official position, enabled an unknown person or several of them to carry out illegal logging in the Piševska Rijeka region. It was determined that 218 spruce, spruce and fir trees, with a total gross mass of 297,93 m3 and 30 beech trees with a total gross mass of 52.60 m3, were illegally cut down in the aforementioned region, causing material damage to the Forestry Administration in the amount of 35.841 euros," the statement states.
The police emphasize that, in coordination with other state authorities, they continue intensive activities in the fight against environmental crime and corruption as defined national priorities, as well as in preventing illegal logging, finding and prosecuting perpetrators of criminal acts, and preserving and preventing further devastation of Montenegro's natural resources.
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