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Separately, prosecutors are attempting to return land belonging to the water, forestry and nature reserve funds to the state

In two instances, business owners felled thousands of trees on leased land without permission

The case files now comprise 74 volumes

Specifically, in the Kharkiv region, authorities are seeking to impose a fine of over 100 million hryvnias on a company for the illegal extraction of loam and clay

Residents complained about the logging of healthy forests and the loss of drinking water in the community

The most costly crime uncovered this week was the illegal extraction of sand, amounting to nearly 750 million hryvnias

Illegal logging, mineral extraction, and water pollution are the most costly to the environment

Sand was extracted not at a single site, but at six locations at once

Due to a conspiracy involving the directors of transportation companies, the mayor, and the state registrar, the environment suffered losses of over 180 million hryvnias

We are talking about more than 2,300 hectares of wetland ecosystem bordering the nature reserve

Experts are convinced that, in the absence of a response from the authorities, an approach like the one in Negrebivka is likely to spread across the entire country

The company denies all allegations, citing responses from government agencies