An official from the Ministry of Housing and Public Services was arrested in North Ossetia. Apparently, due to his inaction, 157,000 tons of waste accumulated in Waldikabkaz. According to the researchers, the head of the regional Ministry of Housing and Public Services, who was responsible for the management of municipal solid waste, knew about the innovator's violations, but did not intervene. Due to this, more than 157 thousand tons of waste III. Accumulated in Waldikabkaz in areas not suitable for temporary storage. V risk classes. The official is accused of abuse of power. He has now been taken into custody. Around the same time, three former heads of rural settlements in the Kizilsky district were sent to detention in the Chelyabinsk region. They are accused of aiding and abetting fraud and exceeding their authority in eliminating unauthorized dumps. According to the investigation, the garbage was not removed, and in one case it was buried on the spot, but officials signed reports on the works performed. The total damage is estimated at about 25 million rubles. The former head of the Zingi settlement is also accused of accepting bribes. Recently, Nikolai Peschakin, former Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of the Trans-Baikal Territory, received a real sentence for a similar story. The court found him guilty of exceeding his authority when accepting the return of a landfill in Narchinsk. The official signed an act of complete completion of the work, which contained inaccurate information regarding their completion. The damage to the budget amounted to 20.8 million rubles, Peschakin himself received four years in a general regime colony. Recycling in Telegram | at MAX.