Summary
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(1) A Chinese environmental protection company with a secondary qualification for industrial wastewater treatment was contracted by a property company to guarantee that 100% of the wastewater entering the wastewater treatment station would be processed. During the operation of the project, the project site management staff discovered a leakage in the No. 1 adjustment pool and reported it to the legal representative of the environmental protection company, Cheng. Cheng summoned the project staff and instructed them to use the leakage in the No. 1 adjustment pool to secretly discharge untreated electroplating wastewater. The project site management staff then pumped the wastewater into the No. 1 adjustment pool for leakage. The environmental monitoring team of the Chongqing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Bureau discovered the secret discharge. Sampling monitoring found that the concentration of hexavalent chromium and total chromium in the wastewater leaking from the No. 1 adjustment pool exceeded the national pollution discharge standard by 29.5 times and 9.9 times, respectively. The defendant company, the environmental protection company, violated national regulations by illegally discharging pollutants containing heavy metals exceeding three times the national pollution discharge standard, severely polluting the environment, and committed the crime of polluting the environment.
(2) Cheng, the legal representative of the environmental protection company, as the directly responsible supervisor, and Zeng and Yao, employees of the company, were directly responsible for the company's environmental pollution behavior. The Chongqing Yubei District People's Court made a judgment, convicting the environmental protection company of the crime of polluting the environment and imposing a fine of 80,000 yuan. Cheng was sentenced to 9 months in prison and fined 40,000 yuan for the crime of polluting the environment. Zeng was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined 20,000 yuan for the crime of polluting the environment. Yao was sentenced to 6 months in prison, suspended for 2 years, and fined 10,000 yuan for the crime of polluting the environment.
(3) This case is a water pollution criminal case caused by discharging wastewater into the Yangtze River. The environmental protection company, as a company with industrial wastewater treatment qualifications, knowingly had a leakage in the No. 1 adjustment pool and directly discharged untreated electroplating wastewater into the Yangtze River, severely polluting the river water, and should be held criminally responsible. The court fully played the role of environmental resource adjudication and comprehensively handled the case, imposing heavier penalties on the environmental protection company with wastewater treatment qualifications, providing a good example for serving the ecological civilization construction of the Yangtze River Basin.