Sentenced for cutting fir wood to build a house.
(Baonghean.vn) - While searching for medicinal herbs in the forest, Lầu Bá Cồ discovered a fir tree that had been felled long ago. He hired people to cut it down to use for building a house, but they were discovered.
On the morning of April 27, the Ky Son District People's Court opened the first-instance trial of the case "Violation of regulations on forest exploitation and protection and forest products" against defendant Lau Ba Co (born in 1987), residing in Tong Khu village, Na Ngoi commune (Ky Son).
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| Defendant Lau Ba Co. Photo: Hoang Tuan |
According to the indictment, in July 2020, Lau Ba Co went into the forest in Lot 4, Section 9, Sub-area 493 of the forest area managed by the Ky Son District Protective Forest Management Board to pick medicinal leaves. There, Co discovered a plant.fir woodThe tree had been felled a long time ago, so he decided to saw it up and bring the wood home to build a house. About a week later, Co borrowed a chainsaw and went into the forest to cut the tree into four equal parts. Then Co returned home and hired Luong Van Tha (born in 1989), residing in Tang Phan village, Na Ngoi commune, to saw the wood into planks. Over the course of three days, Co and Tha completed the sawing process.prefer to saw woodIt was cut into 176 planks of the same size (250cm x 40cm x 2cm) and 3 square columns of the same size (260cm x 19cm x 14cm). The amount of wood that Lầu Bá Cồ sawed was determined to be 3.527 m³.3.
The expert assessment report No. 607/CNR-VP dated December 11, 2020, from the Forest Industry Research Institute of the Vietnam Academy of Forestry Science concluded that "The tree species"oil palmCunninghamia konishii (oil cypress) belongs to group IA in the "List of endangered and rare forest plants and animals" issued with Government Decree No. 06/2019/ND-CP dated January 22, 2019.forest plant management, endangered, rare and precious forest animals and the implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Animals and Plants.
At the trial, the defendant Lau Ba Co honestly confessed and admitted to all his criminal acts, stating that his purpose in harvesting the timber was to bring it home to build a house.
Considering the nature and extent of the defendant's actions, as well as their understanding of the law, the court sentenced the defendant to 2 years in prison but suspended the sentence, with a probationary period of 4 years.