Before loggers went to the forest to extract timber, middlemen lent them cash on condition that the logers sold the logs to them. The logs were afterwards handed over to private traders or dealers. Different dealers were responsible for the transportation of logs at each stage of the chain. To illustrate, logs were transferred from the middlemen in the village to dealer three in the district town, from dealer three to dealer two in the provincial center, and finally from dealer two to dealer one in the lowland market. At each level were also officials from different government agencies such as the market management team [MMT], Tax management team [TMT], the police, and others who were supposedly enforcing market regulations.