Kunming Customs seized more than 30 tons of "foreign garbage" and arrested 6 suspects
Kunming, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Kunming Customs seized more than 30 tons of "foreign garbage" and arrested 6 suspects Sunday, according to Kunming Customs.
According to reports, in accordance with the unified deployment, Kunming Customs dispatched a total of 40 police officers and more than 10 police cars on the same day, with the assistance of the Honghe border Checkpoint, in Hekou County to carry out net action on the smuggling of solid waste gang. The first round of scheduled arrest of 6 main criminal suspects all arrived at the case, the scene seized more than 30 tons of solid waste.
According to the investigators, the suspects Fang Mou and He Mou bought solid waste such as waste plastic and cloth overseas, and handed it over to Li Mou to organize others to smuggle and smuggle it from the border service road through the way of bypassing the customs, and then stole China's waste transfer procedures to Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places to sell for profit. Relevant evidence shows that from July to November this year alone, the gang is suspected of smuggling 1,100 tons of solid waste into the country.
Since the beginning of this year, Kunming Customs has taken the prohibition of "foreign garbage" entering the country as the "No. 1 project", strengthened research, analysis, supervision and investigation, and vigorously attacked. According to the unified deployment of the General Administration of Customs, a number of rounds of concentrated crackdown have been organized in a continuous manner to resolutely intercept and block "foreign garbage" outside the country. Up to now, Kunming Customs has filed a total of 149 cases of smuggling all kinds of solid waste, and verified and confiscated about 5,800 tons of smuggled solid waste.