Border guards suspended over major illegal logging caseFour border officials in Dak Lak Province have been suspended after the police raided a huge forest illegal logging site in the Yok Don National Park. Head of the Border Guard Station 747 Senior Lieutenant Colonel Cao Huu TungFour suspended officers are Senior Lieutenant Colonel Cao Huu Tung, head of the Border Guard Station 747, and his subsidiaries including Lieutenant Colonel Bui Khac Hiep, Lieutenant Colonel Pham Cong Khanh and Captain Tran Tien"The case has badly damaged the border guards' credibility," said Colonel Tong Anh Tuan, deputy head of the provincial Border Guard Command. Phuong asked to set up a site near the border guard station to look after the timber. Timber seized at an illegal logging site in Yok Don National Park on April 27On April 27, the police from the Environmental Police Department and the Mobile Police Command raided a major illegal logging site in Yok Don National Park and seized two trucks in Ea T'ling Town. According to the police, the loggers said that the illegal logging site belonged to the Pham Huu Phuong.

Source: VietNamNet News May 03, 2018 08:15 UTC