The Prosecution of Illegal Dioxin Dust Disposal in Taichung: Investigations and Prosecutions | Taichung District Prosecutor’s Office Updates

2024-03-25 10:54:13

The prosecutor investigated the illegal disposal of dioxin dust collected by Delong Company and others in Longjing, Taichung. After the investigation was completed, public prosecution was initiated. (Photo/Provided by Taichung District Prosecutor’s Office)

The Taichung District Prosecutor’s Office investigated cases such as the illegal disposal of dioxin dust collected by Delong Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Delong Company) in Longjing District, Taichung City. After the investigation was concluded, the prosecutor found that the person in charge of the company, Lian Nan, and the female accountant surnamed Liao , a cadre surnamed Lien, and four other people are suspected of violating Article 46, Paragraph 1, Paragraph 3, of the Waste Cleanup Law by providing land for backfilling and stacking waste without permission. The other defendants Chen Nan and Zheng Nan are guilty of violating Article 165 of the Waste Cleanup Law. All suspects of concealing evidence will be prosecuted in accordance with the law. Among them, three people including the person in charge, Liao Nu and Lian Nan are in custody. After being prosecuted and sent for trial, the court decided to continue their detention.

In November of the Republic of China, the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Taichung City Government conducted an on-site inspection of a piece of land in the Lushan section of Longjing District, Taichung City. They found suspected illegal dumping of waste and considered it a crime. Lin Lianhe contacted the Environmental Protection Crime Contact Platform to transmit the relevant information to the reporting information system and reported it to the prosecutor to direct the expansion of the investigation.

After the Central Prosecutor’s Office reported the report, it immediately assigned Prosecutor Bai Huishu to command the Prosecutorial Affairs Officer, the Third Brigade of the 7th Security Police Corps of the Police Department of the Ministry of Interior, the Central Mobile Work Station of the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, the Technology Crime Investigation Team of the Taichung City Government Police Department, and the Taichung City The Wuri Branch of the Government Police, the Environmental Inspection Brigade of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Taichung City Government, and the Central District Environmental Management Center of the Environmental Management Agency of the Ministry of Environment formed a task force to integrate the Procuratorate (Prosecution), Judicial Police (Police), and Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental) To form a cross-disciplinary task force for in-depth investigation.

The prosecutor investigated the illegal disposal of dioxin dust collected by Delong Company and others in Longjing, Taichung. After the investigation was completed, public prosecution was initiated. (Photo/Provided by Taichung District Prosecutor’s Office)

After cross-disciplinary professional analysis of criminal behavior by members of the task force, the interlocking investigation strategies of “chasing people with ground”, “chasing vehicles with people” and “chasing vehicles with ground” were established, and the criminal behavior of relevant suspects was analyzed After grasping the possible accomplices and the division of labor, the first wave of searches and arrests were launched on November 27, 2012, and important key image evidence such as relevant monitor hosts and mobile phones used by the suspects were seized to fully understand the time when the illegal fleet dumped waste. , license plate number and other important criminal evidence, the group’s main suspect Lian Nan applied to the court for detention and was approved, and simultaneously seized 8 large vehicles, 2 RVs, 2 excavators and other crime tools and property to stop the group. Continued criminal ability.

The prosecutor expanded horizontally and identified the group’s financial officer, the defendant Liao Nu, and the driver, the defendant Lian Nan. They were subsequently arrested and detained respectively on November 28, 2012 and January 23, 2013. At the same time, the defendant Chen was found The man and Mr. Zheng drove an excavator that had been seized and could be used as evidence away from the case site to hide the evidence in this criminal case.

After investigation, it was found that the illegal waste removal group composed of the person in charge named Lian, Liao woman, and Lian man, at some time before September 7, 2012, was first used by the main suspect to pile up earthwork, sand, gravel or plastic items, etc. At the site of the landlord’s fraudulent rent case, from September to November 2012, from north to south, general and industrial waste was collected, transported and illegally discarded in Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Changhua and Yunlin.

The prosecutor investigated the illegal disposal of dioxin dust collected by Delong Company and others in Longjing, Taichung. After the investigation was completed, public prosecution was initiated. (Photo/Provided by Taichung District Prosecutor’s Office)

In order to confirm the scope of the dumped waste at the case site and prevent the waste from seeping into the land and causing secondary pollution of the environment, the prosecutor personally directed the task force to expand the excavation of the case site; The sampled waste was sent for inspection as quickly as possible. The Environmental Protection Agency’s test results showed that dioxin, heavy metals lead, cadmium, and copper exceeded the hazardous industrial waste certification standards and was determined to be hazardous. At least 18 tons of waste plastic mixture, 3.5 tons of construction mixed waste, 20 cubic meters of domestic waste, large waste wood, and hazardous industrial waste containing dioxin and heavy metal powder have been seized (the total weight seized so far is 6,240 kilograms).

The Taichung District Prosecutor’s Office appealed that dioxin is extremely difficult to decompose in the environment. Once it enters the human body, it will accumulate in fat and cannot be decomposed, so it is called the “poison of the century.” After our colleagues excavated the site, they experienced dizziness and nausea in the afternoon of the same day, which shows the seriousness of dioxin’s harm to the human body.

The CCDI reiterated that it will strictly investigate and deal with criminal groups that illegally dump hazardous industrial waste and strive to achieve the four major goals of completely dismantling the organization, seizing criminal proceeds, seizing criminal equipment, and tracing the source of pollution, in order to vigorously crack down on domestic crimes and demonstrate Determination to combat environmental crimes.

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