Corruption — latest ecology news
We have heard about the "cutting" of funds for tree trimming in cities, but we have never seen forests cut for the same purpose
Foresters came up with strange explanations and complaints about miners
Sometimes they are twice as big
Foresters are delaying the execution of title documents for the use of forest lands, which has already resulted in about 50 criminal proceedings
Law enforcement officers have completed an investigation into another criminal group of officials of the Kutske Forestry in Ivano-Frankivsk region who caused hundreds of millions of hryvnias in damage to the reserve fund
This looks especially cynical in times of full-scale war and catastrophic lack of funding
Journalists suspect this may be a way to hide additional income
This week, the largest damage was caused by pollution of the Black Sea water area by $2 million
The most high-profile case of the week was the exposure of a large criminal group in Volyn, which was engaged in illegal logging
All of the published cases have already gone to court, and some of them have already been sentenced
They now face up to 12 years behind bars
The managers of the forest farms decided to turn a blind eye to this