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The head of the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Polissia District, Yevhenii Medvedovskyi, reported that calculations of damages from illegal logging of almost 8,8 thousand trees have been completed. The amount of damage to nature exceeds 33 million hryvnias, and the case’s suspects have already been charged. How environmental inspectors and law enforcement officers bring environmental crimes to court.
Millions in damages and criminal charges for suspects
Behind the dry numbers about thousands of destroyed trees lies enormous harm done to Ukraine’s nature. As part of the criminal proceedings, environmental inspectorate specialists carried out all the necessary documentation work and calculated the exact amount of damages — it reached over 33 million hryvnias.
Law enforcement has already announced official suspicions against the persons involved in this crime. The environmental inspectorate itself has been officially recognized as an injured party in this case.
What happens next and how the perpetrators will be punished
Because the environmental inspectorate is acting as the injured party, its representatives will defend the state’s interests directly in court. The inspectors’ main goal is not merely to record the crime on paper, but to secure full compensation for the millions in damages inflicted on the environment.
As Yevhenii Medvedovskyi noted, such results become possible thanks to coordinated teamwork with prosecutors from the Zhytomyr Regional Prosecutor’s Office and investigators from the regional police. At the same time, the court will deliver the final verdict on the guilt of specific individuals.
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