Wenzhou Leather Factory Pollution Environment Owners Were Arrested

Suspected of polluting the environment, illegal discharge of heavy metals, sewage exceeding 30 times the standard, Lucheng District, Wenzhou City Tanning process Mao Mou was arrested by the Lucheng Public Security Bureau yesterday. This is the first case in June 19th that the first interpretation of a number of issues concerning the application of the law to deal with environmental pollution cases was promulgated by the Supreme People's court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate. The first case in Wenzhou was arrested for environmental pollution. Mao, 43, will become the first violator in Wenzhou to be investigated for criminal responsibility for environmental pollution.

In July 15th of this year, when the law enforcement officers of the Lucheng District Environmental Protection Bureau investigated the north shore road of rattan Town, they found that the door of the illegal processing point was closed, but the machine noise was emitted from time to time. After investigation, it was found that the processing point secretly engaged in illegal tanning processing, and heavy metal production wastewater directly discharged into garrison Pujiang, polluting nearby water bodies. Law enforcement officers squatting for many days, when the processing point was illegally produced again in August 11th, it was seized on the spot. Then, the environmental protection department immediately informed the government and local police stations to jointly crack down on the ban.

According to the monitoring report, the illegal processing point of Mao is straight row. waste water The heavy metal content exceeds 30 times, and its behavior has constituted a serious pollution environment, which is suspected of polluting the environment.

According to the latest interpretation of the 338th articles of the criminal law by "two high", the Lucheng District Environmental Protection Bureau collects relevant evidence materials and believes that Mao's behavior has been suspected of polluting the environment and transferred the case to the Lucheng public security sub Bureau.

The case is also illegal to the local government. Tanning process The owners sounded the alarm. In 2008, after the announcement of the "stop operation of leather tanning bases" in Lucheng District, ten tanning bases, such as 5 miles, Yan gate, cave bridge, former Beijing and lower shore, were shut down. Some tannery owners began to fight underground and illegally produce in tattan bridge and other places. According to statistics, since 2009, the government of rattan town has organized environmental protection and other relevant departments to crack down on illegal tanning operations 107 times, ban illegal processing sites 910 times, and remove illegal wet drum 1610. The deputy director of the Lucheng Environmental Protection Bureau, Chi bin, pointed out that when the original environmental protection department investigated and prosecuted such cases, the law enforcement work was hindered because of the difficulty of collecting evidence and difficult identification. "And one drum is only three thousand or four thousand yuan. The illegal tanning process is simple, low cost and high profit. It is easy to revive after dismantling.

The environmental protection department thinks that Mao's case has the significance of benchmarking. Now, the threshold of "pollution entering the penalty" has been lowered, and the law has begun to raise a sharp edge to similar pollution and environmental behavior. It will change people's environmental legal concepts just like "drunken driving into prison". In the future, any unit or individual will not only face economic penalties for illegal sewage disposal, but also be liable for criminal responsibility according to law. It is reported that there are five or six similar cases initially completed by Lucheng EPA, which will be handed over to public security organs in succession.