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03/28/2012
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A single timber with a fictitious address commercial room of 250 m² in Sinop, used fraudulent Guides Forest to legalize more than 29 800 cubic meters of wood harvested illegally or deforestation of forests in several counties in northern Mato Grosso, and Feliz Natal, Claudia Alta Floresta, Marcelândia, Vera and Cotriguaçu. This volume is equivalent to about 1,200 truckloads.
After unveiling the scheme, which can be moved around R$ 9 million in transactions with the guides ideologically false, IBAMA embargoed the company, on Thursday, their legal guardian and fined for R$ 8 million for selling native wood with documentation and rigged for R$ 300,000 by entering false information in environmental control systems in the country.
For 15 months the timber Sinop "warmed up" illegal forest products, from December 2010 until last week, when he had his access to Sisflora (the state system that controls the trade in forest products in Mato Grosso) blocked by IBAMA agents Green Paths in the operation. According to the institute estimates, the fraud was responsible for the damage or destruction of approximately three thousand acres of native forest in Mato Grosso. "No one explores wood and destroys forests can not sell the product. Without these fraudulent documents covering up the shady business many forests would still be together ", says the head of the Surveillance Division of IBAMA in Sinop, Werikson Trigueiro.
Route fantastic
IBAMA auditava Sisflora the suspect transactions in the Forest Drive Guides issued from the account of the timber of Sinop. The company was called "reverse sale" that is supposedly sending large volumes of logs to companies located in major centers loggers in the North of Mato Grosso, which makes no sense. In one transaction, would have sold 40 logs angelim-stone to a sawmill in Cotriguaçu, a district rich in wood in the northwestern state. In fact, the company was negotiating only the paper that the acobertava illegally harvested timber in the forests of the region of its customers.
"When business is real and legal, the logs go where there are forests with sustainable management plans allowed for a place where forests are scarce. There is no reason to sell in the opposite direction. Sinop to Cotriguaçu, for example, is not economically feasible, as there are about 570 km of distance to be traveled between the cities and roads in poor condition, "explains Werikson, adding that would require the Department of the Environment of the Mato Grosso Sisflora reversal of all claims by the company traded wood ghost.
Green Paths
Since the beginning of the year, IBAMA combat with the operation Green Footpaths illegal deforestation of the Amazon in northern Mato Grosso. The region lies on the agricultural frontier of the state and rates of deforestation leads biome. The institute has implemented about R$ 52 million in fines, 19 embargoed properties that together add up to three thousand acres of illegally deforested areas and seized 30 tractors, seven trucks, a car ride and six chainsaws.
Source: IBAMA
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