The police of the Nizhny Novgorod region instituted a criminal case against a resident of the village of Zverevo Gennady Tolchonkov under an article on illegal cutting of forest stands due to the collection of valezhnik .
Tolchonkov told the local television channel Che that the case was opened after he collected 13 trees trunks - “dry” and “rotten”. According to the man, he found several trees fallen by the wind, after which he drank roots and tops and took out the trunks home. “Well, the roots are already dead, now,” he told reporters, pointing to sawed roots. - Here, they even break, that's it. They are black here. "
A local resident claims that, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he threw the trees with a tractor. After the start of the investigation, the police seized a tractor and a saw from Tolchonkov. According to the accused, he suggested conducting an experiment to check whether the tractor could tie the tree, but the police refused.
Vyacheslav Osin told reporters the leading specialist of the Buturlinsky inter -district forestry that he wrote a statement to the police about the illegal cutting of the forest. He noted that he applied not to Tolconkov, but in the fact of the violation. “The police did a decision on this subject, I did not make a decision,” said the forestry specialist.
The head of the forestry, Vladimir Farofontov, in turn, said that “fresh” trees is not a collection of foller . “Foundry wood is at best or wood wood, or even illiquid wood,” Farophon said.