Prosecutors in Dnipro suspect the director of a company who illegally extracted and sold sand, thereby causing damages to the state amounting to UAH 290 million.
This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on social media.
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The investigation reports that the organizer of the unlawful activity is the owner and director of a company specializing in the trade of construction materials and freight transportation.
The suspect inherited a plot of land with an area of 10 hectares in the Petrykivka community and was arranging a pond. However, during 2021–2023, without any permits, he began extracting sand.
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The organizer faces punishment for illegal extraction of mineral resources on a large scale (Part 2, Article 240 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Currently, the director has been served a motion to select a preventive measure. In addition, the prosecutor has filed a lawsuit seeking confiscation of the suspect's land plot.
As previously reported by EcoPolitics, in the Lviv region, the head of a quarry will stand trial for instructing subordinates to extract sand outside the land plot defined by a special permit for subsoil use.
