The violator acquired a land plot and, with the aim of increasing the territory’s area, voluntarily covered the canal that connects the Sumka River and Ilyinskoye Lake with sand. As a result of this, the dumping of eroded soils within the boundaries of the coastal protective strip of the water body occurred. Earlier, the citizen had already been brought to administrative responsibility under the article by inspectors of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.