Rostov Regional Prosecutor's Office investigates involvement of Chief Ecologist in coastal pollution

The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (known as "Rosprirodnadzor") believes that the connivance of the officials from the Committee for Environment Protection of the Rostov Region had seriously damaged the ecology of the region. The prosecutor's office is investigating the case against Grigory Skripka, head of the Committee, initiated under the articles of "abuse of power" and "excess of power".

As previously reported by the "Caucasian Knot", the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region had sent another set of materials of its own check to the investigatory subdivision in order to initiate a criminal case against Grigory Skripka, Chairman of the Committee for Environment Protection and Natural Resources of the Administration of the Rostov Region.

As reported by the RBC (RosBusinessConsulting), it became known today that a criminal case was opened against Grigory Skripka.

As stated by the press service of the Regional Prosecutor's Office, "in the course of the check, the Office established that in 2008 Grigory Skripka concluded contracts, without the state ecological examination, according to which harmful deposits were extracted from the Temernik River and placed in the botanical gardens of the Southern Federal University, which is a protected natural territory," said the press service.

"According to the information of the department of 'Rosprirodnadzor' for the Southern Federal District (SFD), obtained in the course of the check, it was established that the water body suffered damage worth more than 18 million roubles," said Vitaly Semenchenko, the Rostov inter-district environmental prosecutor.