Kashkadarya plant cut down junipers for a road and mined coal without a permit
In Yakkabag district, a private plant building a road to a coal deposit destroyed plants worth 480 million soums, including 24 Zeravshan junipers. The company also mined coal although it only had a permit for geological exploration.
The violations by Mega Asia Salt and Quartz were reported by the Kashkadarya regional police.
The road was being built to the Zarmas coal deposit. Along its route, 24 Zeravshan junipers, 9 honeysuckle bushes and about 3,000 other shrubs were uprooted.
It also emerged that the company had been mining coal at the deposit although it was only allowed to carry out geological exploration. One employee agreed to sell 500 tonnes of illegally mined coal for 350 million soums and was detained as he received the first 50 million soums.
A criminal case for arbitrariness and deliberate destruction of trees and other plants causing major damage has been opened against the head of the company and others involved.
It was reported earlier that illegal logging caused 10 billion soums of damage to nature.
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