On the problematic aspects of organizing the storage and sale of material evidence in the form of wood seized in criminal cases on illegal felling of forest plantations
This article discusses issues related to the storage and sale of illegally harvested timber, which are material evidence in criminal cases initiated under Art. 260 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author analyzed the existing procedure for the work of the investigator (interrogator) with the timber seized in criminal cases, indicated the existing problems associated with the organization of storage of illegally mined timber, which, due to its cumbersomeness and the need to comply with certain requirements, is not possible to store in a criminal case. At the same time, at present there is no single law enforcement practice for organizing the storage and transportation of material evidence of this type. The author proposes ways of solving such problems on the basis of the existing criminal cases practice in some regions of the Russian Federation.