10 bosses detained in pollution crackdown
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POLICE have detained 10 company heads for fabricating pollution data as the nation extends a crackdown on environment-related crimes.
The suspects are from eight companies, including a sewage plant in the southern city of Dongguan and a Gansu-based joint venture with Coca-Cola investment.
They are accused of using fake figures to obtain pollution treatment subsidies, manipulating environment monitoring results, or hindering such monitoring, the Ministry of Environment said yesterday.
Some may face criminal lawsuits, it added.
Under Chinese law, people guilty of environmental pollution offenses can be sent to prison for up to seven years.
To encourage companies to cut down on pollution, the government offers considerable subsidies for treatment.
The plant in Dongguan fabricated the volume of pollution it treated, inflating the number to gain an extra 20 million yuan (US$3.1 million) in subsidies.
It also illegally pumped running water into its sewers to dilute waste water and make it “look clean,” saving costs and cheating the environment test authorities, the ministry said, adding that the violation was “extremely serious.”
The ministry said it launched a special inspection into environment fraud in July and employed new technologies to detect offenses, including using drones.
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