Municipal government officer accused of illegal mahogany logging

[Dolores]

The Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday, 18 May 2022 seized more than 200 wood logs during two raids on two sawmills carried out as part of the investigations against José Ling Valdez Mora, director of the Palmarejo-Villa Linda District Board. The Ministry of Environment accuses Valdez Mora of causing serious ecological damage with the illegal cutting of hundreds of mahogany trees.

Attorney General Francisco Contreras, head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Defense of the Environment and Natural Resources (Proedemaren), explained that the action was carried out as a follow up to the investigations they are conducting for the felling of trees in Santo Domingo province.

“The investigations have led us to two sawmills where wood was being taken in a truck belonging to the municipality and from one of the sawmills from which wood was dismantled in the green area of...

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[JD Jones]

They really need to make an example of gov't. employees using gov't. resources for personal enrichment.

Then again, maybe the Mahogany is for someone higher up?

 

[playacaribe2]

They really need to make an example of gov't. employees using gov't. resources for personal enrichment.

Then again, maybe the Mahogany is for someone higher up?

Setting an example?

Well that would likely eliminate all government employees in the DR if they did so.

Respectfully,
Playacaribe2

 

[CristoRey]

Probably destined for China.

 

[chico bill]

They really need to make an example of gov't. employees using gov't. resources for personal enrichment.

Then again, maybe the Mahogany is for someone higher up?

Well there have been several of these trees felled in the new project across the road from Sosua Beach.
What is obvious is all trees but the Caoba are pushed over and crunched by excavators but the Caoba are neatly cut into sections stacked apart and later carefully loaded into a truck

 

[bob saunders]

Probably destined for China.

Nope, destined to make cupboards....etc for some rich Dominican.