In Transcarpathia, eco-inspectors together with law enforcement officers exposed the illegal taking of sand and gravel mixture from the Tysa River in the village of Steblivka, Khust district.
Eco-inspectors measured the volume of the arbitrarily taken mixture to calculate the amount of damage, reports State Environmental Inspection in the Transcarpathian region.
"Transcarpathia is rich in minerals, but, unfortunately, their extraction does not always take place in accordance with the requirements of the current legislation," the press service of the State Inspection Service noted.
The authors emphasized that many complaints are received by law enforcement and control bodies, to which they respond in a timely manner.
It was emphasized that both administrative and criminal liability is provided for violation of the rules of protection or use of subsoil, for illegal extraction of minerals.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Transcarpathia, the Security Service of Ukraine exposed an enterprise that illegally mined and sold minerals, namely andesite, worth UAH 270 million. The company is part of the Austrian construction concern, whose shareholder is one of the Russian oligarchs, included in the sanctions list of the National Security and Defense Council.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Transcarpathia, businesswomen from the Tyachiv district reported suspicions of illegal extraction of sand and gravel mixture, which caused losses in the amount of more than 4 million hryvnias. A woman, having only an approved project for clearing the Tisza River bed, mined 6,000 m3 of subsoil
