Ivan Ašanin, the list bearer of the Civic Movement URA in Mojkovac, said that officials of the local government in that municipality were clearing a road in a protected part of the forest in order to create conditions for the felling of munica - an endemic species of pine that is under UNESCO protection, from which they would benefit. of about 5.000.000 euros.
At the press conference, Ašanin said that the URA filed a criminal complaint against the mayor of Mojkovac, Dejan Medojević, and the local forest administration.
"Because by opening the roads, they entered areas where no work is allowed and where the forests are protected. Munika is under the protection of UNESCO, and 10 cubic meters of that timber was exploited to build that road. And they built the roads to extract the timber that it is worth 500 euros per cubic meter," said Ašanin.
He stated that the Basic Prosecutor's Office promptly rejected criminal charges without prior expertise, and added that the Special State Prosecutor "has a lot of work to do" in this case.
In the criminal report for this case, filed against the director of Trudbenik doo, Vuksan Radonjić, it is stated that in violation of the law, the remittance and felling of fir, black pine, beech and mulberry trees, as species protected by law, in the amount of 756 meters of cubic meters, and permitted road breaking in the length of 3,4 kilometers.
"In departments number 36 and 33, there are about 10.000 cubic meters of munika, protected by law, so I reasonably suspect that a series of these illegal actions by the aforementioned services were carried out by circumventing the regulations that regulate this area in order to destroy this legally protected plant species and cause a huge material damage in this area. The subsidization of the breakthrough of the Ravni Šiub-Ružica road through these departments was done deliberately by the local self-government due to the co-financing of actions prohibited by law, and under the guise of alleged concern for the herdsmen from the villages of Bistrica and Katun Doke for the reason that unfortunately there are no herdsmen who raise on this katun or they are in a negligible percentage with one cow each," the criminal complaint states.
Ašanin said that this is not the only affair when it comes to cutting down forests in Mojkovac.
"The second affair proves the abuses of the forest administration, 431 tree stumps were cut down, the state was damaged for 388.480 euros, which was confirmed by the director of the forest administration, Nusret Kalač," said Ašanin.
The URA attached the response of the Forestry Administration, i.e. its director Nusret Kalač, in which it is stated that a survey of illegal logging was carried out in the Kolašin Sub-Division, and that the total amount of illegal logging recorded in the state forest is 4.381 stumps, i.e. 5.047,47 cubic meters of wood, which caused damage of 388.480 euros.
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