Prosecutors prosecuted eight accomplices including Guo Zaiqin and two companies including Ming Xiangxin for violating the Abolition of the Clearing Law.

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[Reporter Wang Junzhong/Tainan Report] The 88 shooting case occurred in the early morning of November 10 this year in Tainan's Xuejia District. Among them, Guo Zaiqin, the executive member of the Democratic Progressive Party, was shot 58 times in his previously rented factory building.

Today, the Tainan District Prosecutor's Office accused Guo Zaiqin's former Ming Xiangxin Company of illegally filling more than 679,000 tons of slag in the Xuejia area and making a profit of at least 2.16 billion yuan. Eight accomplices including Guo Zaiqin and two companies including Ming Xiangxin were prosecuted by Qingfa and other suspects.

In 2015, Chiayi and Tainan District Prosecutors Offices investigated and investigated the case of illegal landfilling of waste slag from an electric arc furnace in Xuejia District. At that time, the prosecutors believed that the slag filled was a recycled product and not waste. Guo Zaiqin and Lin surnamed Guo Zaiqin was not prosecuted, and the prosecutors returned the seized evidence.

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In April 2019, the district chief of Xuejia and the Mindai again reported Guo Zaiqin's previous case that other agricultural land, industrial land, and state-owned land were illegally landfilled. Prosecutors Xie Xinru and Chen Yuming successively took over the investigation.

Chen Yuming also investigated the Tainan Houbi District furnace residue case (prosecuted in May 2021), and found that the person involved in the Houbi District furnace residue case, Lai Rongtian, was also a person related to the Xuejia District furnace residue case, and the two cases were closely related.

The prosecutor restarted the investigation, starting from the original files of the two cases of Houbi and Xuejia, comprehensively obtained and compared the analysis of the relationship between Chaoxiang Company in the Houbi case and Mingxiangxin Company in the Xuejia case from 2009 to 2015. According to the data, it was found that after the slag overflow caused by the 88 flood in Chaoxiang Company, the slag screening plant in the rear wall area could not continue to operate. The site of the company's School A factory.

Guo Zaiqin pointed out that the Xiangxin Xuejia factory building was an industrial site, and agreed to move the slag screening plant to the Ming Xiangxin factory building to operate in its name. Guo found it profitable, and soon became a shareholder of Lai and Wei's slag business. .

Guo took advantage of his position as a director of the Xuejia Farmers Association to obtain agricultural land near Jiangjunxi in the Dawan section of Xuejia, and hired people to transport the cinders obtained by Ming Xiangxin to the agricultural land for illegal landfill.

Prosecutors said that in March 2011, changes to the Slag Reuse Act came into effect, Ming Xiangxin obtained the recycling inspection and gradually replaced the slag removal business of two upstream companies, and Lai Rongtian also quit Ming Xiangxin's operation.

Ming Xiangxin expanded the collection of slag from several other iron and steel factories, and Guo and Jin, surnamed Wei, continued the slag recycling business.

Guo Zaiqin, in order to clear up the slag for huge profits and facilitate illegal removal, used human heads to buy the land opposite Ming Xiangxin Company, occupied the adjacent state-owned land and used other industrial land, and used many heads or companies that did not know about it to falsely report the hearthstone Reuse the whereabouts of the product to cover up its illegal crimes.

The prosecutor, together with the environmental protection department of the government, excavated and inspected the illegal landfilling of the slag in the Jiadawan section of the farmland. It was exactly the same as the case of the rear fireplace slag. The characteristics of the backfill were the stainless steel reduction slag of the electric arc furnace (which can only be used as raw materials for cement and cement products). , The landfill depth ranges from 1.2 meters to 7.8 meters, far exceeding the pavement engineering specifications for the legal use of slag reuse products. 98,341 tons and 581,629 tons in the Xuejia Industrial Zone, Ming Xiangxin saved more than 1.8 billion in waste removal fees, and more than 360 million yuan in removal and treatment fees collected from various iron and steel plants.

Among them, the land in the Xuejia Xingye section that had not been stabilized and treated with furnace slag and restored slag caused the factory building of the mask national team stationed in the factory to absorb water and swell, the pavement of the factory area was raised and cracked, and the contact points of the walls and columns were broken, endangering structural safety, etc. serious damage.

After the prosecution concluded the case in October this year, it filed an application for preservation and seizure of the relevant defendant’s illegal gains. The Tainan District Court once rejected it and asked for additional documents. The prosecution filed a new application for seizure at the end of November. The seizure of the defendant's property was completed in the first ten days of the month.

Aerial photo of agricultural land in the Dawan section of Xuejia, Tainan that was previously illegally filled with slag.

(Provided by Tainan District Prosecutor's Office)

Aerial photo of previously illegal landfilling of slag in the fishery land of Xuejia District, Tainan.

(Provided by Tainan District Prosecutor's Office)