Nakhodka customs officers opened 3 criminal cases on the fact of smuggling of Manchurian ash, which belongs to strategically important resources.
As the acting deputy head of Nakhodka customs Alexander Movchan, a businessman from Vladivostok from 2015 to
In accordance with Part 1 of Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Smuggling of strategically important resources on a large scale", the businessman will be punished up to imprisonment for up to seven years.
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Manchurian ash is an object of the CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Permission to export valuable wood species is issued by Rosprirodnadzor on the basis of documents confirming the legality of their extraction and acquisition.
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