Unlicensed mining of common minerals was identified by inspectors of the Zakamsky Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan during monitoring in the Kama water area. A dredger carrying out mining operations with subsequent loading onto a pusher tugboat Rechnoy-21 was recorded at one of the sites. Upon request to the Administration of the Kama Basin of Inland Waterways, the owner of the watercraft was identified.
All information on the revealed fact has been transferred to the linear police department of Naberezhnye Chelny to make a decision on the initiation of a criminal case.