The company has been under federal investigation since September 2013, when the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) published a report alleging it imported large quantities of wood illegally sourced in the Russian Far East.
The SEC filing, stating that action is being contemplated against Lumber Liquidators, follows a recent announcement that a key Russian supplier of high value timber to Lumber Liquidators had been convicted in a Russian court hearing of 15 counts of illegal logging between 2010-2012.
The EIA report identifies the Russian company as a key supplier of valuable timber to a Chinese flooring manufacturer that produces Lumber Liquidators’ Virginia Millworks line of solid oak and birch hand-scraped flooring.
