Common mineral resources were illegally recovered from the bottom of the river Kama
23 April 2014, Wednesday
Inspectors of the Cis-Kama Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan took the measures regarding revelation of the fact of illegal recovery of common mineral resources on the river Kama. As of April 14, illegal recovery of sand-and gravel material from the bottom was carried out at the site of Sidorovskoe deposit located on the right side of the navigable channel of the river Kama within the range of 1,640.4-1,644 km. Recovery works were carried out by the crane boat PK-19 with further loading on to the barge of the vessel с RT-361 and “Oksky 32” with further transportation to Naberezhnye Chelny to the site owned by the Limited Liability Company “Transline”. The volume of recovered common mineral resources amounted to 2,654 tons.
The materials regarding these facts were referred to the law enforcement agencies to decide on initiation of a criminal case.
Inspectors of the Central Department, together with representatives of the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Republic of Tatarstan, conducted a survey of the territory of the Zelenodolsk district.
The events were held in the Zainsky district. The commission included inspectors from the Zakamsky Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
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