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In Chernivtsi, law enforcement exposed a scheme of illegal mineral extraction and misappropriation of budget funds during the capital repair of the landfill dam. The total amount of damages caused amounts to 19 million UAH.
As reported by Dilo, the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General said this.
Details of the scheme
According to investigators, in winter 2026 of the year the city council department signed a contract with a contractor for the capital repair of the dam. Under the terms of the agreement, the ground material for the works was to be supplied by the department.
However, the official and the director of the company decided not to purchase materials, but to extract soil directly at the landfill site without any special licenses for subsoil use.
They involved an employee of the contractor who organized the operation of special equipment and accounted for the extracted loam, and a landfill foreman who allowed equipment onto the site without hindrance.
From April to June 2026 of the year, more than 30 thousand cubic meters of loam were illegally extracted from the landfill area. Experts estimated environmental damage at nearly 18 million UAH.
In addition, law enforcement established the fact of misappropriation of more than 1 million UAH of budget funds through the purchase of concrete for repairing the same dam at significantly inflated prices.
Among the suspects are the head of one of the city council departments, the director and a employee of the contracting organization, and the foreman of the landfill.
Four defendants are charged with illegal extraction of minerals, which caused serious consequences (part 4 of article 240 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Additionally, the city council official and the director of the contracting organization were notified of suspicions of embezzlement or misappropriation of property in especially large amounts (part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The committed offense provides for a sentence of up to 12 years of imprisonment.
Earlier, in Odesa region, a case was sent to court concerning large-scale illegal sand extraction from the Dniester? Danube? river (the text says from the Danube) that lasted from 2023 to 2025 years and caused the state more than 182 million UAH in damages.
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