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10/07/2012
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Illegal is checked in the extractive reserve Renascer in northwestern Pará, according to federal prosecutors
The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) complained to the Justice and a timber as five people responsible for illegal logging in the extractive reserve (resex) Renascer in northwestern Pará, 64.5 cubic meters of wood - more than 23,000 logs, sufficient volume to carry 2,500 trucks. According to the coordinators of Operation Arc of Fire, seizure, held in 2010, was the largest seizure of illegal timber ever made in Brazil by the Federal Police.
The complaint was forwarded to the Federal Court in Santarém and, if convicted, the accused are subject to penalties ranging from one to six years imprisonment and a fine, according to each of the crimes they were accused of (environmental crimes and conspiracy.)
In addition to these charges, the administrator of the timber Jauru, Adriano Dandolini, was also accused of committing perjury 1189 times with a public document, a crime punishable by imprisonment from one year to five years and fine.
According to the prosecutor Marcel Brugnera Mesquita, the complainant, to cover up illegal logging the accused defrauded System Marketing and Transport of Forest Products (Sisflora).
Illegal deforestation occurred from May 2009 to March 2010, when there was oversight of the operation Arc of Fire, by the Federal Police, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), National Security Force and the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA).
Besides Dandolini and three others responsible for the activities of timber, among the five defendants are Sandro Hely Dandolini Peper, owner of the company that made the transport of illegal material.
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In 2010, the prosecutor asked the Marcel Brugnera Mesquita ICMBio Justice is prevented from donating to the Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Combat (MDS) the wood seized, which has a value estimated at R$ 16 million. The law prevents the government make free distribution of goods in an election year.
The MPF claimed that, in addition to violating election laws, the donation violated several principles of public administration and Convention of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to protect the rights of traditional communities.
"All decisions relating to an extractive reserve must necessarily pass through prior resolution of its board, in which community participation is essential to traditional presents," he said Mesquita in the lawsuit.
Federal Judge Jose Airton de Aguiar Portela accepted the request of the MPF, which proposed the federal government and the community Resex a Term of Conduct Adjustment (TAC) at which half the funds raised through the auction of wood would be transferred to the government and the rest would be invested in sustainable community development. The signing of the TAC is being negotiated by those involved.
Source: Ig News
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