In Buryatia will judge two Irkutsk for large poaching on Lake Baikal

The transport prosecutor's office of Buryatia handed over to the court the materials of the criminal case on illegal fishing of omul, the damage from which exceeded 2.4 million rubles. Two residents of the Irkutsk region were charged, the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor’s Office said.

According to the investigation, in June this year, the defendants, using prohibited fishing methods, in the waters of Lake Baikal near the village of Novy Enkhaluk illegally caught 336 “tails” of Baikal omul. The amount of damage caused to aquatic biological resources of the Russian Federation exceeded 2.4 million rubles.

The materials of the criminal case were transferred for consideration to the Kabansky district court of Buryatia. Since the defendants independently repaid only 80 thousand rubles of damage caused to the state, the representative of the prosecutor’s office within the framework of the process filed a lawsuit for the compulsory recovery of the full amount of damage from poachers.

The property of the defendants in the case was arrested.