ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih announced that on September 3, 2019the Security Service of Ukraine again visited the company to inspect the coke production facilities. It said “11 SBU representatives were admitted to the enterprise, accompanied by specialists from the Main Department of Environmental Inspection and the State Food and Beverage Service in the Dnipropetrovsk Region and the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Laboratory Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. At the same time, SBU employees refused to allow specialists of the enterprise to participate in the inspection, thereby depriving them of the opportunity to properly evaluate the measurements and actions taken.”
Currently, SBU representatives, together with ecologists, are conducting an inspection of coal preparation, coke shops, as well as trapping and desulfurization workshops of coke production. The inspection is carried out on the basis of the decision of the Babushkinskiy District Court of the Dnieper on 08/13/2019 as part of a criminal investigation under Article 441 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Ecocide.
Recall that earlier, on July 20, SBU employees searched the enterprise to check the radiation background on a new continuous casting machine No. 3 (CCM-3), the commissioning of which was then suspended and the property was seized. It was possible to unlock the investment project and commissioning at CCM-3 only in early August. The health of the workers was not in danger, and the correctness of the enterprise with repeated measurements of the radiation background was confirmed. However, today the company received a notification from the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine on an unscheduled inspection based on a letter from the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence Protection of the State’s Interests in the Field of Economic Security of SBU dated 08.21.2019 No. 8/2 / 2-6817.
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