Grim up north (3)

"The local procuratorate violated the laws. For example, it started an auction for the forest even though there hadn't been a court ruling on the case," said a document released by the Bureau of Commerce of Heilongjiang Province in August 2007, and e-mailed to the Global Times by Fu.

"The local procuratorate had a special aim to grab the logging rights for a certain interest group … that had power and influence and could manipulate the local procuratorate and security department," the Bureau of Commerce of Heilongjiang Province said in the document, which was also submitted to the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).

Other Chinese official departments including the National Development and Reform Commission and China Development Bank, which have also launched their investigations, came to similar conclusions, according to testimony made by Fu to the Beijing Arbitration Commission in 2012.

Fu said he submitted an application on December 12, 2012 to the Bureau of Commerce of Zhejiang Province, to apply to MOFCOM to launch international arbitration this year.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation could not be reached for comment by press time.

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