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Press release: Blood-stained birch

29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn

Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany

22.03.2024 Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized

Russian “conflict timber” worth over $400 million bought by Japan since Ukraine invasion

22.03.2023 Imports linked to illegal logging profit oligarchs & Russian gov't

“Conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in US since Ukraine invasion

24.02.2023 America’s continued trade in Russian ‘conflict timber is aiding terror in Ukraine and further enriching ultrawealthy Russians close to Putin

Revealed: Russian oligarchs make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with West

11.03.2022 Putin’s cronies are behind major logging firms and wood exporters

The illegal Russian wood hidden inside Ikea children’s furniture

15.07.2021 A new Earthsight investigation unpacks Ikea's latest illegal timber problem

Taiga King: Russian court lets off timber tycoon who admitted bribes

23.12.2020 BM Group chief Alexander Pudovkin walks free after case dismissed

Europe awash with wood from billion-dollar Russian illegal logging scandal

16.12.2020 Spies. Lies. Lumber. A new Earthsight investigation

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