NED to investigate criminals
Everyone who owns the cobalt tailings that the province’s industry ministry has been given permission to complain to the Samut Sakhon Provincial Industry Office.
On Wednesday, Minister Pimphattra Wichaikul issued a directive to the Provincial Industry Office to report those posing with cadmium to the National Resources and Environmental Crimes Suppression Division ( NED ).
Additionally, the company is planning to return all the cobalt waste to Sangat.
Out of the 13,382 kilograms of copper tailings that were illegally transported from a garbage in Tak, thus far, 12,421 tonnes have been discovered.
Most of them, comprising 7,880 tonnes of waste, were found in three companies in Samut Sakhon: J& B Metal Co (6,378 tonnes ), Chin Hong Cheng Inter Tech ( 2008 ) Co ( 1,034 tonnes ) in Muang district, and 468 tonnes at a warehouse in tambon Khlong Ma Duea of Krathum Baen district.
Another 4,391 tonnes were found at a warehouse in Chon Buri’s Ban Bung area, and the other 150 kilograms were found at LL0 Metal Co in Bangkok’s Bang Sue area.
According to Ms. Pimphattra, the Department of Primary Industries and Mines ( DPIM ) visited the landfills in Tak on Wednesday; to test their readiness before May 7’s burial.
According to Ms. Pimphattra, the government also wanted to address people’s concerns about leaks in the 30 trucks used to carry the cadmium waste from the warehouses to Sangat.
The ministry directed the Department of Primary Industries and Mines to inspect the site of Bound and Beyond Plc in order to make sure there wo n’t be any leaks of toxic cadmium tailings when it is reburied there, especially in the tambon Nong Bua Tai in Muang district.
She stated that members of six officials will meet tomorrow to discuss a strategy and transportation strategies.
The group will conduct further investigation before bringing charges against the manufacturer and inventory owners, according to NED commander Pol Maj Gen Watcharin Phusit.
As for Jetsada Kengrungruangchai, producer of J& The B Metal Co, which received the copper tailings from Tak and kept them in his Samut Sakhon smelting manufacturer, may meet with the NED police nowadays at 10am to release a statement. As for whether he will be charged, this will depend on the information, he said.
In addition, Akaradech Wongpitakroj, Ratchaburi’s United Thai Nation Party MP, pleaded with the government to stop the dark Chinese business community connected to the copper tailings trade in his capability as president of the House’s industry committee.
Thus far, two offenders have been charged. One is the owner of a Chinese warehouse in Chon Buri, and the other is a Japanese national who runs the Samut Sakhon warehouse.