In Peru, timber bosses have targeted and exploited Indigenous communities in Peru to obtain permits to extract and trade endangered timber such as cedar. In 2013, an alleged timber baron, Teodulfo Palomino Ludena, approached a community near the border of Brazil, promising work and economic support in return for allowing the company, Lanc Forest SAC, to log in the community’s territory. In 2019, however, several inconsistencies came to light, including the alleged harvesting of excess volumes of timber, and using the community’s management plan to launder timber that had been extracted illegally elsewhere. Furthermore, the community’s ledgers had been doctored, with Palomino allegedly forging the signatures of its leaders on deeds.