Corruption — latest ecology news
![Hundreds of hundred-year-old pine trees were illegally cut down in the Chernobyl NPP exclusion zone for UAH 120 million](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/shutterstock_1862646718-500x334.jpg)
The total amount of damage identified by auditors in the Northern Pushcha State Enterprise reached a terrifying figure of UAH 264 million
![Prosecutors return water fund land worth over UAH 35 million to community in Kyiv region](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/shutterstock_1768905041-500x375.jpg)
The decision to set aside the land plot turned out to be illegal
![Volyn National Park director and two entrepreneurs to be prosecuted for demolition of century-oak trees](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rubka-lisu-cumanska-pushha1-500x375.jpg)
In addition to illegal felling of trees, the head of the protected area is accused of exceeding official powers and of legalizing property obtained through criminal means
![Director General of Forests of Ukraine headed illegal logging and corruption in the industry – investigation](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/bolohovets_cover-500x214.png)
According to the investigators, the situation in the forest industry only worsens every year
![Bukovyna official organizes illegal logging in national park worth UAH 1.7 million](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/shutterstock_1659051325-500x215.jpg)
As punishment, he can receive up to 10 years of imprisonment
![Prosecutors return UAH 50 million worth of forest land to the state in Kyiv region](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/shutterstock_2367246091-500x334.jpg)
They were not used for their intended purpose
![Law enforcers investigate involvement of Minister Ruslan Strilets in corruption scheme](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/shutterstock_2399852571-500x333.jpg)
Previous state losses are estimated at tens of millions of hryvnias
![Environmental activists record another illegal logging in Biloozersky National Park](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/shutterstock_2364505343-500x376.jpg)
This is not the first such case
![The SBI unmasked a criminal group that had cut down forests for more than UAH 4 million](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/na-kirovogradshhini-suditimut-lisnikiv-yakih-dbr-vikrilo-na-nezakonnih-rubkah-3-500x312.jpeg)
Dealers can get up to 7 years in prison
![Lutsk Prosecutor's Office returns land of National Nature Park to the state for UAH 485 million](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Berestiane_Lutskyi_Volynska-Tsumanska_Pushcha_National_park-lakes_in_Bohuslavka-1-500x208.jpg)
They were illegally taken from the national nature park
![Scandalous draft law on sanitary felling removed from the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/shutterstock_1408605185-500x334.jpg)
Public publicity was probably one of the reasons
![A scheme of illegal logging for millions of hryvnias was exposed in Bukovyna](https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/shutterstock_1659051325-500x215.jpg)
Fraudsters face up to 10 years in prison