On 21 October 2016 in Ulyanovsk sentenced seven members of a criminal group on charges of embezzling oil from the main oil pipeline in the Ulyanovsk and Penza regions
Criminals have stolen thousands of tons of oil products on 70 million roubles, for what has received from 3 to 8 years of imprisonment. In addition, the leader of the criminal group to pay a fine of 1.8 million rubles. Earlier in Irkutsk the leader of the oil robbers got 20 years.
The fact of the conviction of the thieves in real time is remarkable. No joke, but still caught “Bratchikov” either immediately released or given suspended sentences. And then the courts began to classify such cases as organized crime and BAM! 8 and 20 actual years in prison. In Irkutsk after a 20-year sentence “vrischikam” criminal tapping into the pipe is almost gone.
But the overall picture in the country the reverse is the number of frames increases.
From 2011 to 2016 from 284 filed in Leningrad region criminal cases sent to court only 15, and neither one of the organizers of plunders of oil products through tie-in was never convicted.
The biggest thing for theft of fuel from pipelines in the Leningrad region, initiated in June, 2015 in respect of the so-called OPG “Athletes”, was discontinued in November of the same year, “in the absence of crime event”.
Russian impunity contrasts with the punishment for similar crimes in China. There is a single insert in the tube give from 8 years in prison for repeated theft – the death penalty. In the United States for similar crimes sentenced to 20 years in prison. In Russia, the courts are humane to vrischikam.
Meanwhile, the theft of pipes is a serious problem for the state. In addition to direct threats – ecocatastrophe and deaths, there are still threats to the security of the country. Revenues from the illicit oil business is going to support criminal organizations, strengthen the corruption of power can be channelled to Finance terrorist groups. To combat knockouts need coordination power and legislative structures.
The reports are both from the combat zone. Weekly fixed a few hole in the trunk of NP and NPP of the system “Transneft”. The most glaring fact from the latest – settlement Girey Kuban, where they found many kilometers criminal network of branches with a length of about 10 km, laid with the installation of horizontal drilling at densely populated area among the various buildings. The location of the drain in stolen oil tanker disguised as a chicken farm, worked just around the corner from the office of the village administration and police support the point of order. Ie all knew and said nothing?
By the way, diesel fuel is more attractive to thieves. It can be directly sold through filling stations. The oil must still be processed by passing through a distillation “necesalova” and mix with quality fuel. Prevent too quickly the car will stall… But to keep the plant and deal with angry motorists is dangerous. And criminals pereorientirovanija on the finished fuel quality. The main flow of diesel fuel pumped in the port of Primorsk, and the most “leaky” part of the pipe now accounts for the Leningrad region.
Now “Transneft” implements the project “North” to increase via Primorsk export of diesel fuel from 8.5 to 25 million tons per year, and project “South” − pumping in Novorossiysk to 11 million tons of diesel fuel per year with the Volga group refineries. However, if the trend inherent in Ulyanovsk and Irkutsk, and not will continue, and the courts will continue to “encourage” oil thieves probation, the projects risk becoming a criminal in a colander.
