Under the procedural guidance of the prosecutors of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the operation of the underground plant for the production of diesel fuel and gasoline was stopped.
According to the investigation, employees of one of the companies established oil processing and production of low-quality fuel. In the future, illegally manufactured products were sold on the territory of Lviv Region.
The production capacity of the “enterprise” made it possible to produce up to 5 tons of oil products every day.
During the searches, almost 40,000 liters of oil products, special equipment and draft records were discovered and seized.
The estimated value of the seized is UAH 7.5 million.
Currently, the necessary investigative and search actions are being carried out, all persons involved in the commission of a criminal offense are being identified.
The pre-trial investigation into the fact of illegal manufacture of excise goods (Article 204 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) is carried out by the investigators of the Investigative Department of the Main Department of the National Police of the region under the operational support of the Strategic Investigations Department in the Lviv Region of the National Police of Ukraine, with the participation of the Territorial Department of the BEB in the Lviv Region.
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Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office