Illegal sand mining on a giant ship, opposing authorities

On January 10, 2022, Hung Nguyen District Police said that the unit is temporarily holding 129.3m³Sand and an iron-hulled ship are the means that two subjects residing in Hung Loi commune, Hung Nguyen district used to illegally exploit sand on the route.Lam River.

Previously, through the work of grasping the situation, Hung Nguyen District Police discovered that in the area, there were 02 subjects using 01 iron-hulled ship with a capacity of 755 tons, equipped with a system of modern machinery and equipment, with large exploitation capacity to exploit sand along the Lam River stretching from Hung Loi Commune to Hung Thanh Commune, Hung Nguyen District. In particular, the subjects took advantage of the border area between Hung Nguyen District (Nghe An Province) and Duc Tho District (Ha Tinh Province), the border area between licensed and unlicensed areas to illegally exploit sand.

Iron-hulled ships equipped with modern equipment for illegal sand mining. Photo: Hong Ngoc

Faced with the above situation, Hung Nguyen District Police have deployed professional measures to monitor and combat.

Specifically, in the early morning of January 8, 2022, upon receiving information that subjects were illegally mining sand in an unlicensed area in Hung Thanh commune, Hung Nguyen district, under the direction of the provincial police, Hung Nguyen district police coordinated with the Environmental Police Department and the Traffic Police Department of the provincial police to establish a working group to arrest the subjects.

Upon discovering the police force, the subjects immediately weighed anchor and fled. However, using professional measures, the subjects obeyed the orders of the working group and stopped the ship for inspection. At the time of inspection, on board the ship were NVS (born in 1986), the ship owner, and NVC (born in 1979), the ship driver, both residing in Hung Loi commune, Hung Nguyen district. The working group discovered that in the ship's storage compartment there were about 130m³sand.

Police work withNVC Photo: Hong Ngoc

At 8:00 a.m. the same day, after completing the documents proving the violations and making a record of the subjects' illegal sand mining, the working group requested the subjects to bring the ship to the assembly location to execute the decision.vehicle detentionHowever, the subjects had an opposing attitude and did not control the ship as requested.

Faced with the above situation, with the consent of the provincial police leadership, a task force from the Mobile Police Department was deployed to approach and suppress the subjects; and bring the vehicles to the assembly location.

During the verification process, in coordination with the authorities, Hung Nguyen District Police decided to temporarily detain the vehicle and the above mentioned amount of sand to continue investigating and handling the subjects according to the law.

It is known that the means used by the subjects to illegally exploit sand is the ship with the largest capacity and exploitation ability in Nghe An and Ha Tinh./.