Under the procedural leadership of the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the pre-trial investigation was completed and an indictment was sent to the court against a forester of one of the forestry enterprises of the Lviv Oblast on the facts of embezzlement of someone else’s property that was entrusted to a person and illegal felling of wood (Part 4 of Article 191, Part 4 Article 246 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to the investigation, the accused set up a scheme of illegal felling of the forest and subsequent sale of this felled wood.
It was established that the defendant caused damage to the environment in the amount of more than UAH 500,000 with his illegal actions.
The pre-trial investigation was carried out by the investigators of the Main Department of the National Police in Lviv region, under the operational support of the Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv region.
Note: in accordance with Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until his guilt is proven in a legal manner and established by a court verdict.
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