A line has been drawn under the case of bitumen spill in Derbyshki

Judicial Board of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan reviewed an appeal regarding bitumen spill in Derbyshki. By court order, three individuals will be held criminally liable, and they will have to indemnify against financial damage.

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Judicial Board of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan reviewed an appeal of condemned Nurgalieva D.I. with regard to the sentence of Sovetsky District Court of Kazan as of 15.12.2014 upon criminal case No. 1-277/14.  The complaint was dismissed, and the verdict came into force on February 24, 2015 under Article 390 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation.

Earlier, on December 15, 2014, the judge of Sovetsky District Court of Kazan sustained a sentence upon criminal case No. 1-277/14г regarding the fact of ground pollution by placement of oil sludge in the amount of at least 2,095 tons on land plots of 1,860 square meters in area located at a distance of about 150 meters from traffic area  on Mira str. of Derbyshki village in Sovetsky district of Kazan in the direction of a horticultural society “Medik” owned  by the Ministry of Land and Property Regulations of the Republic of Tatarstan and the State Public Establishment of the Republic of Tatarstan “Prigorodnoe forestry”.      

           In compliance with the sentence, the following people were condemned:

1. Nurgalieva D.I. under part 1 Article 254 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, part 4 Article 261 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with assignment of criminal punishment in the form of a fine amounting to 360,000 rubles to the state revenue. The punishment was waived in compliance with paragraph 9 of the Enactment of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation as of December 18, 2013 No. 3500-6ГД “On amnesty due to 20th anniversary of adoption of the Russian Federation Constitution”;

2. Pavlov E.G. under part 1 Article 254 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, part 4 Article 261 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with assignment of criminal punishment in the form of a fine amounting to 360,000 rubles to the state revenue;

3. Nurtdinov B.G. under part 1 Article 254 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, part 4 Article 261 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with assignment of criminal punishment in the form of a fine amounting to 360,000 rubles to the state revenue.

Civil claims have been settled by the court verdict, and the following amounts have been collected jointly and severally from accused D.I. Nurgalieva, E.G. Pavlov and B.G. Nurtdinov to the revenue of the State Public Establishment of the Republic of Tatarstan “Prigorodnoe forestry”: for ground pollution – 3,187,243 rubles 70 kopeck; damage of forest vegetation – 4,146 rubles 30 kopeck; to the revenue of the Ministry of Land and Property Regulations of the Republic of Tatarstan – 1,092,000 rubles; to the revenue of the Executive Committee of Municipal Formation of Kazan – 50,451 rubles 20 kopeck, while, all in all, civil claims have been settled to the total amount of 4,333,841 rubles 20 kopeck.

The court verdict doesn’t revoke the preventive measures sustained to secure the civil claim: seizure of a motor vehicle of D.I. Nurgalieva, seizure of non-residential property of 191.1 sq. meters in area located at the following address: Kazan, 20/12 Chistopolskaya str., seizure of an apartment of B.G. Nurtdinov, seizure of current account balance of “InvestRealt” LLC.

Detection of the above mentioned violation of the nature protection legislation, as well as referral of inspection documents to the law enforcement agencies regarding the fact of violation of the nature protection legislation to initiate criminal proceedings and estimate the amount of inflicted damage with regard to the initiated criminal proceedings were carried out by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. Violation of the nature protection legislation was revealed by the Ministry’s inspectors in April 2013. It inflicted damage on the environment and forest vegetation. The Ministry of Ecology organized cleaning and removal of bitumen. In October 2013 the measures on biological reclamation of the territory were implemented.

Press Service of the Ministry