Timber industry complex named the most corrupt area in the Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk, August 24, AmurMedia. Most of the identified in the region of corruption lies in forestry. This forces law enforcement to keep logging on the special control. This was stated yesterday at the board meeting on fighting corruption under the governor of edge, RIA AmurMedia in the press center of the regional government. According to acting Head of third operational search of economic security and anti-corruption Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Sergey Khrustaleva Khabarovsk Territory, in 2010 and first half of 2011 in forest management was revealed 11 of malfeasance. Criminals are actively using the imperfect legal framework and weak supervision by the competent authorities. Thus, the majority of illegal logging are made ​​as work on the device rides for roads, pipelines, power lines. A high proportion of crimes related to VAT refunds on lesoeksportnyh operations. According to S. Khrustaleva these facts indicate a lack of interaction between departments, leading to control logging. He introduced the Government's specific proposals to reduce corruption in the forestry industry. Among them: strengthening control over the harvesting and subsequent use of timber, increasing the number of forest inspectors, changes in tax laws with regard to preferential VAT refunds lesoekporterov. All Regional News