In the Lviv region in the Yavoriv district, environmental inspectors and police officers exposed the illegal extraction of 63 m3 of construction sand.
This caused damage to the state in the amount of more than 68 thousand hryvnia, the State Environmental Inspectorate in the Lviv region reports on Facebook.
Violations were recorded outside the settlement in the Mostisky territorial community. A truck, an excavator and two citizens were found on the spot, who were illegally collecting sand.
Environmental inspectors noted that sand is a mineral of local importance.
"Materials of the violation in the order of Articles 214 and 240 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine were sent to the SU GU PE in the Lviv region for an appropriate decision," the report says.
The message also added that losses in the amount of UAH 68,796 were calculated in accordance with the Methodology for determining the amount of compensation for damage caused to the state due to unauthorized use of subsoil.
Earlier,EcoPolitic wrote, that the prosecutor's office reported suspicions to two citizens for illegal sand mining for 2.3 million hryvnia, which in July 2022, in collusion with officials, organized work on hydraulic alluvium (extraction) of sand from the territory of the coastal protective strip of the Dnieper River.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in Ukraine the reform of subsoil use began, which is designed to turn the State Service of Geology and Subsoil into a service institution, modernize the "rules of the game" and ensure effective control by the state.
