Recently, Qingdao Customs, with the assistance of Nanjing Customs and Ningbo Customs, has destroyed a criminal gang that smuggled waste plastics into the country and arrested four criminal suspects. Preliminary inspections showed that the gang used a license as a non-qualified waste plastic processing factory. Smuggling of imported waste plastics involved a total of 10,000 tons of waste plastics.
Recently, in the “Blue Sky 2018′′ campaign against “foreign garbage” smuggling in the third round of special operations, Qingdao Customs initiated an investigation of a certain plastic product factory in Shandong suspected of smuggling imported waste. During the investigation of the case, Qingdao Customs’ smuggling police discovered that the plastic product factory smuggled. The overseas supplier of imported waste plastics is a processing plant established overseas by Fanmou, general manager of Zhejiang Import & Export Co., Ltd. The Import & Export Co., Ltd. does not possess the legal solid waste import and processing qualifications, and Fan You has the permission to use others. The license organization suspected of smuggling waste plastics.
After further investigation, Qingdao Customs has mastered the criminal affiliation of the gang and the trajectory of the main criminal suspects. The opening time is ripe. On June 5, the Qingdao Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau dispatched 12 elite smuggling police officers to conduct two-way network operations. , captured Fanmou and other suspects 4. Through on-site search of the company involved, seized a batch of evidence of key smuggling crimes, successfully destroyed the smuggling of waste plastic gang led by Fanmou.
The investigation revealed that Fan Mou, a general manager of Zhejiang Import & Export Co., Ltd., used solid materials such as Jiangsu Metal Industry Co., Ltd. controlled by Wu et al. and other qualified companies in the absence of legal solid waste import and processing qualifications. The import license entrusted the freight forwarding company to falsely report the goods to the Customs, smuggle imported waste plastics processed by its overseas plastics factory, and then sold it to small-scale processing plants such as domestic plastic products factories, and smuggled imported waste plastics totaling more than 10,000 tons.
It is understood that for the state to restrict the import of solid wastes such as waste plastics that can be used as raw materials, companies or individuals that do not have national environmental assessment qualifications, and use other people's licenses for smuggling and importing, because there is no necessary pollution prevention and control facilities during production extraction and utilization, Can easily cause pollution threats to the local environment.
Currently, the case is under further investigation.