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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

In Dnipro, a waterfront conservation area worth 170 million hryvnias is being developed, while in Kyiv, a former lawmaker and traitor has appropriated protected land worth nearly 600 million hryvnias

Previously, researchers at the Rivne Nature Reserve had already prepared the necessary documents to include the marsh in the nature reserve fund

The environmental damage is estimated at over 1.7 million hryvnias

This practice has already become systemic, and current legislation does not allow for the immediate suspension of subsoil use rights for violators

The most high-profile violations involve deforestation