Chongqing Jiangjin Police detects an environmental case of illegal discharge of hazardous waste pollution

In the special operation of the "Kunlun 2022", the Chongqing Jiangjin Police successfully detected a case of illegal discharge of hazardous waste pollution, seized 3 suspects, and helped the ecological environment department properly dispose of 0.3 tons of illegal discharge waste oil.

On January 18, the Chongqing Jiangjin Police received a report by the masses, saying that a large amount of oil was floating in the Anxi River in Luoyu Town, which was suspected to be a waste engine oil stolen by a company in Luoyuan Industrial Park. The police quickly went to the scene to conduct an investigation and found that the oil pollution was flowing into the Anxi River via the rainwater pipe through the park, and the source of the source of the park was locked as the production workshop of a certain accessory forging plant in the park. Under the guidance of the Environmental Protection Corps of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Jiangjin Police immediately set up a task force to investigate.

The task force sampled the water pipes around the enterprise. Based on other evidence, it was confirmed that the pollutants illegally discharged at the scene were HW08 waste hydraulic oil, waste lubricating oil and oil -containing wastewater. After investigation, the company's illegal and private pipe discharged waste engine oil in the workshop was discharged from the oil -separation pool, and then the oil -separated pool was discharged into the municipal rainwater pipe network.准确查清其犯罪事实后，专案组采取统一收网行动，将犯罪嫌疑人胡某（男，68岁、九龙坡区人）、李某（女、49岁、渝中区人）、叶某（ Male, 57 -year -old, Jiulongpo District) arrested.

According to Hu's explanation, the company produces a large amount of hazardous waste -waste oil during the production process. In order to save the cost of hazardous waste disposal, Hu connected the oil separation pool to the municipal pipeline in violation of regulations. Under the circumstances that the illegal discharge of waste engine oil would pollute the environment, the person in charge of the workshop Ye Mou was illegally discharged through dark management. Ye Mou's subjective considers that the amount of emissions is not large and will not cause serious consequences. He and Li have sneaked waste oil through the dark tube five times, totaling 0.3 tons.

According to the ecological environment department of Jiangjin District, illegal discharge of hazardous waste -waste oil, which contains a large amount of harmful substances, has dangerous characteristics such as strong toxicity and flammable, and illegal discharge into the river will cause serious pollution to soil, groundwater, and vegetation. This generates high environmental emergency response and ecological repair costs.

At present, the Jiangjin police have transferred the case to the procuratorate for review and prosecution, and the ecological environment department has properly disposed of illegally discharged waste oil pollution.

It is understood that since 2019, Chongqing has focused on the prominent problems of rivers, and has released 4 city -level chief chief commands in 4 years to promote the continuous improvement of the city's water environment. In April 2022, Chongqing issued the 4th city -level chief commander of Chongqing. The sheriff of the river reservoir, to promote the "combination boxing" in order to promote prevention and treatment, consolidate the foundation of the grass -roots level, mobilize group control, and strengthen publicity and guidance. Public security organs at all levels in the city actively play the effectiveness of the "river length+sheriff", promote the implementation of the public security river long system and river bank sheriff system, further unblock the two -way interoperability of grass -roots river chiefs and sheriffs related to the river. The follow -up mechanism is to combat the prevention of crimes involving rivers, help the water environment to improve the continuous and deep practical, actively build an important ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and promote the construction of Chongqing into a beautiful place for mountains and rivers.

Police reminded that waste oil is a hazardous waste and contains a variety of harmful substances. Illegal emissions will pollute the soil and water quality, and it can also cause fires and explosions. For the transportation and disposal of hazardous waste, relevant laws and regulations need to be strictly observed, and professional institutions with relevant qualifications are properly handled. The public security organs will severely crack down on illegal discharge of hazardous waste and severely pollute the environment. If the citizens find that they are suspected of illegal emission clues, they can call 12369 to report to the ecological environment department, or call 110 to report directly to the public security organs, or log in to the "Awards Report" column of the official website of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau for online reports.

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Article 338 of the Criminal Law: [Pollution of the Environment] In violation of national regulations, discharge, dump or dispose of radioactive waste, waste, toxic substances or other harmful substances containing infectious diseases, which are seriously polluted by the environment, are placed. The sentence of three years of imprisonment or detention, and a penalty for a single fine; if the consequences are particularly serious, they will be imprisoned for three years and seven years, and the fines will be punished.

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