The press service of the company reports..

As noted, consumers interfered with the meter to reduce its readings. In particular, they designed tie-ins to the gas pipeline, unauthorizedly connected gas equipment or renewed gas supply.

According to the department, each such case could cause fires, destruction of buildings and death of people.

It should be noted that illegal tie-ins and gas theft will cost such consumers much more than legal consumption of the resource. In this regard, they will have to pay for unaccounted gas at the maximum consumption rates.

According to the head of the security department of PJSC Kharkivorgaz Alexei Dzyuba, for the theft of gas they face criminal liability under Article 185 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - up to seven years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.

By the way, specialists of PJSC Kharkovgorgaz are not the first to detect illegal gas consumption in various ways.

Recall, as previously reported, "URA-Inform, in less than six months in our country increased the production of blue fuel by 2.5% - up to 8.6 billion cubic meters. M in comparison with the same period of 2016.