An economic entity from Gagauzia was obliged to pay almost 600,000 lei to the state after it illegally extracted sand from a publicly owned plot in Cahul, IPN reports, quoting a communiqué from the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Last September, the Cahul Court accepted the prosecutors’ request to hold the company accountable and ordered levying the full sum from the economic entity for the state’s benefit. Representatives of the company challenged the given decision.

Recently, the Supreme Court of Justice rejected the appeal, upholding the decision of the first court. Its decision is irrevocable.