On January 30, State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Andrija Delić, Head of the Forestry Directorate Ranko Kankaraš and several citizens of Rožaje submitted a criminal complaint to the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Rožaje for illegal logging in several departments in the Paučinske šume Management Unit and one department of the forest in Lovničke šume in Rožaje.
Criminal charges were filed against the acting director of the Forest and Hunting Management Administration, Miloš Rajković, the former head of the Rožaje Regional Unit of the Forest and Hunting Management Administration, Alen Kalač, the assistant director of the Forest and Hunting Management Administration and coordinator of work in the Rožaje Regional Unit, Danko Popović, and the head of forest protection in the Rožaje Regional Unit, Rifat Kalač.
video: Ranko Kankaraš
Delić and Kankaraš said that they filed the report with the Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Rožaje, and that it is the result of a large number of reports of illegal logging in the Rožaje area reported by citizens in that town, and the first in a series of criminal reports that will be filed in the coming period, after the evidence and relevant documentation for other management units are completed.
"On this occasion, we would like to highlight the very professional relationship and cooperation with the Police Directorate - Regional Unit Rožaje, which itself has received a large number of reports of illegal logging and forest destruction. It is very important that, at the request of the Police Directorate, a field inspection was carried out by a forestry inspector based outside Rožaje, on which occasion an inspection report was drawn up confirming the existence of illegal logging and forest destruction. Once again, we call on all competent authorities, including the National Security Council, to act urgently and pay due attention, because there is already enough evidence and warnings that forests in Montenegro are continuously disappearing due to illegal logging," the statement signed by Delić and Kankaraš states.
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