An entrepreneur who illegally mined clay worth UAH 209 million will be tried in Cherkasy region

An entrepreneur who illegally mined clay worth UAH 209 million will be tried in Cherkasy region chk.gp.gov.ua
Katerina Belousova

The director of the company faces up to 8 years in prison

In the Cherkasy region, prosecutors filed before the court an indictment of a hundred and fifty directors of a private enterprise, as if they had illegally charged 209 million hryvnias.

The company illegally occupied a plot that produced loam and clay, according to the Cherkasy regional prosecutor's office on Facebook.

Significantly, that the sum of brown copalins was taken up by vicory for the production of cegli.

"He organized the extraction of minerals of national and local importance on the territory of one of the local deposits of brick raw materials in Cherkasy region. At the same time, he did not have legal documents for the use of land and special permits for the use of the subsoil provided by law," the report says.

The press service said that the director of the company is charged under Part 1 of Article 197-1 and Part 4 of Article 240 of the Criminal Code, which provides for imprisonment for a term of five to eight years.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the commercial court of the Cherkasy region decided to collect from the enterprise 12 million hryvnias for mineral extraction of national significance. The enterprise mined 4,200 m3 of gneiss stones without a special permit.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, the Zhytomyr Regional State Administration issued a permit for further work on granite extraction in a quarry covering the territory geological monuments of nature "Outcrops of granites of the Lyznikov type". The issued permit does not contain any environmental restrictions, although the monument has been gradually destroyed since 2018.

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