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Smuggling 11,000 tons of prohibited goods, fined 1 million yuan, a pair of father and daughter partn

  • Author:Jim
  • Source:Souair
  • Release Date:2020-08-25
Smuggling 11,000 tons of imported industrial steel waste, a father and daughter partner were both sentenced. On August 22, Nanning Customs notified that the first-instance judgment of the "GN1819" waste smuggling case had come into effect.

The General Administration of Customs website reported on the 25th that the Intermediate People’s Court of Fangchenggang City recently issued a first-instance verdict on the “GN1819” waste smuggling case investigated by the Anti-smuggling Branch of Fangcheng Customs. Zhou Mouan was sentenced to 7 years in prison for the crime of smuggling waste. 1 million yuan;

Zhou was guilty of smuggling waste and was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment, suspended for 4 years, and fined 500,000 yuan; a zinc industry company in Qinzhou, which Zhou actually controls, committed the crime of smuggling waste and was fined 1 million yuan. The current case The verdict has come into effect.

The defendant Zhou Mou'an and Zhou Mou have a father-daughter relationship. Father Zhou Mou'an is 71 years old this year, and daughter Zhou Mou is 44 years old this year. It is understood that Zhou has been engaged in mineral processing for a long time and is familiar with the mineral industry. He knows that it is more profitable to use smelted slag for secondary refining and processing.

In 2008, after retiring, Zhou Mouan led his daughter and relatives from Hunan to Guangxi to invest in a Qinzhou Zinc Industry Co., Ltd., specializing in the production and sales of zinc oxide mineral products and by-products. Zhou Mouan served as the company's legal person.

In August 2018, the Anti-smuggling Branch of Fangcheng Customs found that a Zinc Industry Co., Ltd. in Qinzhou and the father and daughter of Zhou Mou'an were involved in the smuggling of foreign garbage, and immediately opened a case for investigation.

After investigation, Zhou Mouan approached Huang Mouchun, the person in charge of a trade company in Fangchenggang City, to discuss the import of industrial steel waste from Vietnam under the name of "zinc oxide" from Fangcheng Port. The two sides hit it off and Zhou Mouan was responsible for contacting the source of goods in Vietnam. Zhou and Huang Mouchun were responsible for the false declaration of industrial steel waste as "zinc oxide" for customs import.

In order to conceal the facts of the crime, Zhou and others also created false contracts and changed public-private transfers to create the illusion of buying and selling "zinc oxide" between the two companies. The investigation by the anti-smuggling department revealed that Zhou and others smuggled 11,217.305 tons of imported industrial steel waste. Due to the serious circumstances of the case, the case was listed as a first-level supervised case by the Anti-smuggling Bureau of the General Administration of Customs.
The court found that the defendant, a Zinc Industry Co., Ltd. in Qinzhou, and the defendants Zhou Mou’an, Zhou Mou, and Huang Mouchun still declared the goods to the customs under the name “zinc oxide” when they knew that the goods were industrial steel waste Import, deliberately violating customs regulations, smuggling 11217.305 tons of industrial steel waste slag prohibited by the state from importing into the country. The circumstances are particularly serious and have violated the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 152 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China. For the crime of smuggling waste, the above judgment was immediately made.

On September 1, 2020, the newly revised "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste" will be officially implemented. The customs will continue to increase its crackdown on illegal and criminal acts such as smuggling foreign garbage, and effectively protect the national ecological safety and people's health. health.