To replace the logs that kept disappearing from the impounded stocks, they confiscated fresh logs from another timber merchant.Abdul Rahman Saleh, the attorney-general and a former Supreme Court judge, admits that the entire legal system, including the police and the prosecutors, is mired in corruption.
To keep Endeavours voyages and discoveries secret, Cook confiscated the log books and journals of all on board and ordered them to remain silent about where they had been.
In 2007 at the port cities of Vohémar, Antalaha, and Toamasina, authorities confiscated thousands of logs valued at millions of dollars (US$).
Incredibly, Pheap has also been granted the exclusive rights to collect illegally logged timber confiscated by government officials around the country to then sell on and export for a profit, according to an eight-month investigation by NGO Global Witness into the illegal logging trade in Cambodia.
This year, in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve in the northeast, $500,000 worth of illegally logged mahogany was confiscated.
At the same time, warriors use confiscated tools to destroy already-cut timber and logging equipment.
The corruption runs so deep, he said, that even confiscated wood is often sold back to the same logging companies.
Although schools are required to keep logs of searches and include anything that was confiscated, they do not record what type of class is searched or the gender or race of students searched.
The nonprofit InnerCity Struggle, which works to promote safe, healthy communities on L.A.'s Eastside, and the advocacy law firm Public Counsel asked the district for logs of random searches at schools where weapons had been confiscated.
Worse, it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers.
