PUBLISHED: 27 Jan 2025 at 04: 30
According to the Natural Resource and Environmental Crimes Suppression Division ( NED), two Chinese nationals were detained in Chachoengsao for the unlawful possession of hazardous materials.
In the eastern province’s Phanom Sarakham area, NED police officers and Department of Industrial Works employees raided a factory on Sunday and detained Chinese directors identified only as Guo, 55, and Li, 42.
A 10-tonne hill of squander and abandoned components from a separating process that were large metal contaminated, as well as two piles of smashed products that were also large metal contaminated.
The defendants were charged with possessing type-3 toxic ingredients that were contaminated with lead, copper, mercury and other big metal ingredients, said the NED.
The arrest came after the Customs Department previously seized 10 delivery vessels, containing 256 kilograms of hazardous materials.
The buyer was identified as the company that was based in Phanom Sarakham, according to the police investigation.
Don officers discovered that the party even had a stock in Prachin Buri.
The Department of Industrial Works had earlier ordered the factory to shut down, with data being seized and prohibited from being transported.
However, on January 5, authorities discovered that toxic substances were being transported from Prachin Buri to Chachoengsao, which led to the yesterday attack.
The Chachoengsao factory’s activity has been ordered to stop by the Department of Industrial Works.
The suspects acknowledged that the toxic materials had not been processed with proper authority. Both confessed to the cost.
The pair’s legal action was taken to Chachoengsao’s Phanom Sarakham place.
According to the NED, Department of Industrial Works officials are conducting an inspection of the region and local neighborhoods before filing a lawsuit.
Lead and lead from factories may pollute the environment, which will ultimately harm both people and animals, the NED added.