Monitoring

In protected areas, such car races are prohibited by law

Hundreds of pine trees with a diameter of up to one meter were cut down, passing them off on paper as "maple shrubs

Forestry workers themselves organize criminal schemes, often involving private entrepreneurs to sell illegal raw materials

Members of a gardening cooperative illegally built 33 houses and even legalized them using fake documents

Fires at a landfill and illegal emissions from a heating plant have polluted the air, causing tens of millions of hryvnia in damage

The temporary "bridge" was built in violation of legal requirements, but the DEI ignored this

The Polissya Forestry Office blames its predecessors and calls the modern structure a gazebo

The anti-corruption agency found a whole range of opportunities for abuse in the document

Among the criminals are MPs, officials, entrepreneurs and simply those who are "not indifferent" to making money from destroying nature

The DSP "Kharkivlisozahist" is also involved in the crime, having carried out a fictitious survey of the sanitary condition of the trees

Sludge flowed out of the plant for hours, poisoning fields and flooding roads

Activists from LIiS identified 33 cases of this crime, but law enforcement agencies opened only seven cases