{"id":200370,"date":"2026-02-05T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=200370"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:29:02","slug":"ecological-catastrophe-in-leskovac-mine-manager-arrested-at-the-lece-mine-increased-presence-of-heavy-metals-found-in-the-jablanica-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/ecological-catastrophe-in-leskovac-mine-manager-arrested-at-the-lece-mine-increased-presence-of-heavy-metals-found-in-the-jablanica-river\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE IN LESKOVAC: Mine Manager Arrested at the \u201cLece\u201d Mine, Increased Presence of Heavy Metals Found in the Jablanica River!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Police in Leskovac have arrested the flotation plant manager at the \u201cLece\u201d mine in Medve\u0111a on suspicion of committing the criminal offenses of environmental pollution and failure to take environmental protection measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Ministry of the Interior in Leskovac, in cooperation with officers of the Criminal Police Directorate, the Crime Suppression Service, and the Department for Combating Environmental Crime, arrested D. S. (born 1978), the flotation plant manager at the \u201cLece\u201d mine in Medve\u0111a, on suspicion that he committed the criminal offenses of environmental pollution and failure to take environmental protection measures, the Ministry of the Interior announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe is suspected of failing to comply with a decision of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, and of continuing operations, as a result of which, on January 20 of this year, during the production process, wastewater containing tailings from the mine\u2019s flotation facility spilled into the Jablanica River,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is added that water sampling revealed a multiple increase in the presence of heavy metals and other substances, which also led to discoloration of the river\u2019s watercourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the suspect was brought, along with a criminal complaint, before the Basic Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Lebane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Police in Leskovac have arrested the flotation plant manager at the \u201cLece\u201d mine in Medve\u0111a on suspicion of committing the criminal offenses of environmental pollution and failure to take environmental protection measures. Members of the Ministry of the Interior in Leskovac, in cooperation with officers of the Criminal Police Directorate, the Crime Suppression Service, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":200371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6219,1617,820,478,11092,11093,113,11094],"class_list":["post-200370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-ekoloska-katastrofa","tag-hapsenje","tag-leskovac","tag-policija","tag-reka-jabalnica","tag-rudnik-lece","tag-srbija","tag-teski-metali","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200454,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200370\/revisions\/200454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}