The alleged cause of the accident was established during the inspection of the territory of TPP-3.

“It was established that the alleged cause of the spill of oil products that began at the base of the tank 5 of NTEC JSC was the subsidence of the concrete platform on which the tank was installed, which led to the separation of its bottom from the concrete walls,” the document says.

Earlier, SK detained the director of CHPP-3 of NTEC JSC Pavel Smirnov, the chief engineer of the enterprise Alexey Stepanov and his deputy Yuri Kuznetsov in the case of a diesel fuel spill in Norilsk.

The head of the shop of the Norilsk TPP-3, Vyacheslav Starostin, was also arrested.

On May 29, diesel fuel spill occurred at TPP-3, which belongs to Norilsk Nickel. The area of ​​pollution amounted to 180 thousand square meters. m. SK filed four criminal cases after an emergency.