A pit-bike rider from Kstovo cut down forest worth 2.5 million rubles to build a track.

      October 22, 2025 17:00 Incidents

      A criminal case has been opened in Kstovo over illegal tree felling. As the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region reported, a local resident illegally cut down 16 trees in a suburban forest to build an obstacle course for his pit bike.

      The fact of the cutting was reported to the police at the end of September by a forester of the suburban district forestry unit of the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife Protection. During a patrol of the area he discovered that 12 birches had been destroyed, as well as an oak, a maple, a linden, and an aspen.

      Police officers, during operational-search activities, identified the alleged offender. He turned out to be a local resident born in 1999 with no prior convictions.

      According to preliminary information, the man cut down the trees to use the wood to create a homemade obstacle track intended for riding a bicycle.

      The damage to the forest fund was estimated at more than 2.5 million rubles.

      A criminal case has been opened against the man for illegal felling of forest plantations. He is under a travel ban and a pledge to maintain proper behavior. He faces up to seven years in prison.

      Earlier it was reported that in Kazan a 19-year-old resident of Bashkortostan was detained on suspicion of participating in a fraud scheme that resulted in two elderly women from Nizhny Novgorod losing more than 1.3 million rubles.

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