This was reported by the press service of Volyngaz.

According to the information, in the course of conducting numerous inspections, specialists came to an interesting observation: most often, consumers from rural areas resort to fraud, less - inhabitants of cities.

In particular, the most violations were found in the villages Gorodishche, Baev, Tseperiv, Lutsk district, in the settlements of Kamen-Kashirsky, Ratnovsky and Vladimir-Volynsky districts.

To responsibility have already attracted 120 unscrupulous consumers. The gas thieves were assigned additional charges, stopped gas supply and fined one million hryvnia.

So, recently the maximum amount of the penalty for the theft of gas - 170 thousand.

hryvnia got one of the residents.

In addition, in winter the consumer decided to save on paying for gas consumed and made unauthorized intervention in the meter to reduce his readings.

Thus, legal consumption of gas for the offender would be cheaper at times than an attempt to save illegally, the press service noted..

As reported in URA-Inform, earlier in the future European companies will be able to purchase Russian gas on the eastern border of Ukraine.