Two
trucks were delivered to a military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Specialized
environmental
Prosecutor's Office and
National Police investigators. This was reported
in the Prosecutor General's Office, UNN reports.
Details
It is noted that the special equipment was seized and arrested by law enforcement officers as part of a pre-trial
investigation of criminal proceedings on the fact of illegal mining
of minerals.
It was established that with the help of trucks
an organized criminal group had been illegally mining sand for a long time on
agricultural land in one of the regions of Ukraine.
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more than 160 thousand tons of sand were illegally extracted. The damage caused to the environment
amounted to UAH 118 million. Currently, five members of the criminal
have been notified of suspicion. The pre-trial investigation
is ongoing
Prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit in the interests of the
territorial community, and also seized the property of the
of the suspects.
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