On June 18 at a briefing concerning results of two-month ecological campaign Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Artem Sidorov told that 1595 unauthorized landfills had been found in Tatarstan on April 15-June 15. 1419 of them have been removed.

By and large, 10 762 violations in the sphere of industrial and household waste treatment have been revealed.

Consequently, 179 enterprises and 1034 officials have been brought to book. Fine sanctions for the sum of 18,5 mln rubles have been imposed. 61 cases have been sent to Prosecutor’s office for consideration.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources organized claims activities in terms of compensation of harm made to environment as a result of unauthorized industrial and household waste treatment.

Deputy Minister of Forestry Kharis Musin, Deputy Head of the Department of Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Natural Resource Use Liliya Gainutdinova took part in the briefing.