Industry | Environmental and judicial departments join forces to combat environmental crimes as the norm

The original monitoring data file is suspected of falsification, falsification, falsification of monitoring data, illegal dumping hazard*, excessive discharge of pollutants.
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Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has disclosed 6 typical cases investigated and handled by local authorities.
It is worth noting that many suspects in these 6 cases were approved for arrest, and some were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
From the 6 cases, it is not difficult to see that the efforts of the ecological environment department and the judicial department to crack down on illegal crimes in the ecological environment field have continued to increase and become more and more normalized.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment pointed out that these six cases are of typical significance for improving the precision level of ecological environment supervision and for furthering strict, standardized, fair and civilized law enforcement.
Falsified monitoring data has been refurbished.
In recent years, the ecological environment department and the judicial department have jointly cracked down on the falsified monitoring data and investigated and dealt with many criminal cases.
However, judging from the six cases disclosed by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the problem of falsification of monitoring data has continued to be repeatedly prohibited.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment revealed that in March this year, the Chongqing Municipal Environmental Administrative Law Enforcement Corps (now the Chongqing Municipal Ecological Environmental Protection Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Corps) and the relevant offices of the Chongqing Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau conducted a joint investigation of an environmental protection company in Chongqing.
It was discovered that on May 22 and 23, 2018, commissioned by a county water affairs bureau, this company conducted sampling and monitoring of the effluent discharged from 26 local sewage treatment plants.
Based on the monitoring report and its original file records, the Chongqing Environmental Administrative Law Enforcement Corps discovered that the company's related monitoring activities and the two monitoring reports issued by this company contained falsified monitoring time and falsified monitoring data, which constituted an illegal act of falsifying environmental monitoring data.
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　　According to the relevant provisions of the "Chongqing Municipal Environmental Protection Regulations", the Chongqing Municipal Environmental Administrative Law Enforcement Corps imposed a fine of 150,000 yuan on the company and fined its main person in charge of 30,000 yuan.
　　Coincidentally, in March this year, when law enforcement officers from the Sichuan Environmental Supervision and Law Enforcement Bureau retrieved a video from a cardboard factory of a company in Xichang, Liangshan Prefecture, they discovered that since March 1, this company has discharged sewage containing a lot of foam every night.
After analysis, it was found that this company was suspected of illegal activities such as secretly discharging high-concentration wastewater at night and falsifying automatic monitoring data.
　　According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, at 20 o'clock on March 13 this year, local eco-environmental law enforcement officers carried out a targeted night surprise inspection of the company and discovered the sampling hoses of the plant's main outlet COD, ammonia nitrogen, and total nitrogen automatic monitoring equipment.
Insert it in artificially placed plastic bottles, which will interfere with the normal sampling of the instrument.
　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment revealed that after further investigation, it was verified that the executor of the tampering and falsification of monitoring data in this case turned out to be the operation and maintenance personnel of the automatic monitoring equipment operation and maintenance unit.
In the end, the operation and maintenance personnel admitted that the replacement sample was carefully disguised, and the replacement sample was filled with a reagent bottle and the reagent label was affixed, which was consistent with the normal equipment in terms of appearance and data.
　　Illegal dumping hazards* occur from time to time　　illegal dumping hazards* are also one of the violations of the ecological environment in recent years.
However, in reality, such cases also happen from time to time.
　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said that starting from October 2018, the total phosphorus index of the Zhongxi Bridge of Wuyi Canal in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, the Fenzhuang Bridge of Xili Cao River, Dongjian Bridge, Caoqiao River Caoqiao, Baidu Port, etc.
There were 11 abnormal fluctuations.
In response to this situation, the Changzhou Ecological Environment Bureau immediately organized law enforcement, monitoring personnel and townships along the route to set up multiple investigation teams, and used drones for aerial inspections, boats and water investigations, and land investigations within 500 meters of the relevant rivers.
, "Water, land and air" parallel, day and night combined way to carry out all-round three-dimensional investigation.
Among them, drones took off more than 80 sorties, 5,200 aerial pictures, and an area of ​​15 square kilometers of images produced.
At the same time, law enforcement officers were divided into 9 groups to conduct a comprehensive investigation of all sewage units, tributaries, branches, ponds, and rural domestic sewage treatment facilities within 500 meters along the Wuyi Canal, Xili Cao River, and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
, A total of 96 tributaries and branch banks were investigated, and 268 sewage discharge units along the line were investigated.
　　The Changzhou City Department of Ecological Environment conducted analysis and judgment based on the investigation and multiple rounds of monitoring data, and discovered the suspicious points and regularities of abnormal fluctuations in total phosphorus, which were preliminarily determined to be caused by ships dumping pollutants.
After the intervention of the public security department, the case of an environmental protection technology company in Jiangsu Province illegally dumping waste acid into the Xili Cao River in Changzhou City was investigated.
　　Another dangerous case of illegal dumping occurred in Zhejiang Province.
　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said that at 17:00 on January 30, 2019, the Lin'an Branch of the Hangzhou Ecological Environment Bureau received a notification from the public security "110" emergency linkage command center that a suspected collapse was found near Yaguan Village, Qingshan Lake Street, Lin'an District.
Lots of paint buckets.
After receiving the report, law enforcement officers from Lin'an Branch immediately rushed to the scene, and the public security organs quickly intervened.
　　A joint investigation by the ecological environment department and the judicial department found that the person in charge of a Hangzhou Packaging Products Co.
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in Yuhang District of Hangzhou City, knowing that Zhang has no qualifications for hazardous waste disposal, still repeatedly disposes of waste paint barrels and waste produced by his company.
Dangers such as rags and waste paint residues* entrust Zhang to dispose of them.
Zhang and Dang and others shipped the received dangerous* to Lin'an District, Hangzhou City for dumping, and profited from it.
　　A third-party testing agency conducted sampling and testing on the soil contaminated by waste paint residues, and the results showed that the characteristic factors in the contaminated soil exceeded the standard, and the dumping was dangerous*.
After weighing, the dangerous* involved in the case and the contaminated soil totaled more than 34 tons.
　　The other two cases disclosed by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment are the environmental pollution case of a soil refining processing site in Neikeng Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, and the environmental pollution case of a soil refining processing site in Neikeng Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province.
　　The crackdown on illegal crimes continues to increase.
The 　　reporter noticed that 4 out of 6 cases involved the judicial department in handling the case, and there were also cases involving criminal offences.
　　In the case of tampering and falsifying monitoring data from a cardboard factory of a company in Xichang City, Sichuan Province, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment fined the company 800,000 yuan in accordance with the law, and transferred the case to the public security agency.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment pointed out that the investigation of this case has been concluded, and the procuratorial organ intends to prosecute the environmental protection technical management personnel of the company involved and the personnel of the automatic monitoring equipment operation and maintenance company.
　　In the case of an environmental protection technology company in Jiangsu Province illegally dumping waste acid into the Xili Cao River in Changzhou, the Changzhou Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment transferred the clues to the environmental pollution case to the public security organs in a timely manner based on the preliminary investigation and preliminary conclusions.
On March 26, 2019, the Changzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau arrested 9 persons involved in the case in Nantong City, Wuxi Huishan District, and Yixing City.
At present, the legal representative of the environmental protection technology company Miao, Zhu, Fang and others have been approved for arrest, and the case is under further investigation.
　　Regarding the cross-regional illegal transfer and dumping danger* case of Zhang and others in Lin'an District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment revealed that after receiving the report, the law enforcement officers of the Lin'an Branch rushed to the scene immediately and launched the “Ecology Environment + Public Prosecution Law "In the linkage mechanism, the public security organs quickly intervened, and, together with the ecological environment department, "investigated, collected evidence, and analyzed at the same time.
" In view of the complexity of the case and the issue of cross-regional law enforcement and evidence collection, Lin'an Branch also organized a joint meeting of "Ecological Environment + Public Security, Inspection and Law".
The Lin'an Branch of Hangzhou Ecological Environment Bureau transferred the case to the public security organ.
Currently, 7 parties have been arrested in accordance with the law.
　　In the case of environmental pollution at a soil refining processing site in Neikeng Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, the ecological environment law enforcement officers and the Jinjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau Neikeng Police Station jointly conducted an investigation and found out the Chen Mou soil refining processing in Jiatang Village, Neikeng Town Point, in the absence of business license and environmental assessment procedures, drain the waste engine oil residue water through the pipeline to the abandoned water well next to the plant.
　　Based on the investigation of the case and the evaluation conclusion of ecological environmental damage, the Jinjiang City Procuratorate filed a criminal incidental civil public interest lawsuit with the Jinjiang City Court in accordance with the law.
According to reports, on October 29, 2019, the first instance of this case was sentenced.
The defendant Chen was sentenced to 1 year in prison for the crime of environmental pollution, and was fined 50,000 yuan and compensation for damage to the ecological environment 3.
106,600 yuan.