The Đắk Lắk Police on Saturday said it had confiscated more than 35cu.m of wood illegally cut down in the Vọng Phu Mountain Protective Forest in the Central Highlands province’s M’Đrắk District. — Photo vietnamnet.vn |
ĐẮK LẮK — The Đắk Lắk Police on Saturday said it had confiscated more than 35cu.m of wood illegally cut down in the Vọng Phu Mountain Protective Forest in the Central Highlands province’s M’Đrắk District.
Last Friday evening, the police raided the forest and discovered four people in the act of transporting the wood, which was already sawed into square pieces.
The four people, Đỗ Ngọc Khoa, Nguyễn Tiệp, Trần Khánh Linh and Hồ Văn Hùng, admitted to the police that they were hired to transport the wood out of the forest for sale.
The investigation into the logging is ongoing. — VNS