The violator will pay more than 700 thousand rubles for illegal extraction of sand in the Nizhnekamsk reservoir
Earlier, inspectors from the Kama Department of the Ministry of Ecology, during monitoring of the Nizhnekamsk reservoir, identified a floating crane extracting river sand. It was found that the extraction of common minerals was carried out without a license for the right to use the subsoil. The volume of illegally extracted sand amounted to more than 1.5 thousand tons. Environmentalists have calculated the damage caused to the environment. It amounted to 320 thousand rubles.
The Arbitration Court of the Republic of Tatarstan fully satisfied the Ministry's claims for recovery from the violator, but it turned out to be a legal entity, calculated damage to the environment.
In addition, the Kama Department issued a resolution imposing an administrative fine in the amount of 800 thousand rubles under Part 1 of Article 7.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (“Use of subsurface resources without a license to use subsurface resources, except for the cases provided for in Article 7.5 and Part 1 of Article 15.44 of this Code”). The legal entity appealed the decision to the court of appeal, reducing the amount to 30 thousand rubles. However, environmentalists filed a cassation appeal demanding a fine of half the sanction – 400 thousand rubles. The Court of cassation, reviewing the case, satisfied the environmentalists' demands and imposed a final fine of 400 thousand rubles.
Thus, the total amount of penalties from the company amounted to 720 thousand rubles.