Last week, electricity thieves were fined half a million hryvnia

PJSC "Zakarpattyaoblenergo" informs that during the period from 14 to 20 of November this year, the company’s employees revealed 80 facts of electricity thefts.

In particular, 62 reports of violation were drawn up against household consumers and 18 reports – against legal entities (private entrepreneurs, companies, firms, etc.).

Most cases of illegal interference in the power grid among households over the past week were found in Rakhiv district (12 violations). Most often, electricity was illegally consumed through damaging and removal of seals on metering devices (19 cases). Another frequent violation recently has been impacting on metering device to change his readings and connection of a hidden wiring socket.

In the legal sector (private entrepreneurs, companies, firms, etc.) facts of thefts were detected in 9 districts. Most violations were observed in the city of Uzhgorod and Vynogradiv districts (4 and 3 cases, respectively). Thus, the most popular type of violation was damaging of metering devices (damage to the meter housing, broken glass, etc.), the use of electricity for business activity, which must be paid at the appropriate tarrif, and damage to indicators of alternating magnetic and electric field impact.

During the last week, Committees to review reports of violation imposed fines totaling UAH 520.29 thousand, including UAH 421.71 thousand among households and UAH 98.78 thousand in the legal sector.

Press service of the "Zakarpattyaoblenergo" PJSC