Secretly bought 34kg of explosives to illegally mine rocks

(Baonghean.vn) - Mr. Thanh confessed that he bought the mines and detonators from a man in Nghia Dan district to serve the illegal stone mining in the Len Roi area.

On the morning of October 27, the Environmental Police Department (PC49, Nghe An Police) announced that this unit had just successfully broken up Project 117N, arresting a subject for illegally storing and using 34kg of explosives and 25 detonators.

Previously, PC49 detectives received information from the public about an illegal stone quarry in Len Roi (Da Son hamlet, Nghia Phuc commune, Tan Ky district) that regularly used explosives to quarry stones.

Mr. Tran Van Thanh with evidence. Photo: MC

Project code 117N was established to fight and destroy. At 8:00 a.m. on October 24, PC49 suddenly raided the Len Roi quarry area and discovered Mr. Tran Van Thanh (born in 1968, quarry owner) cleaning up the quarry area.

At Mr. Thanh’s private home (500m from the quarry), the task force discovered a plastic bag containing 25 electric detonators and 17 plastic bags, each containing 10 solid ingots, each weighing 2kg. The number of confiscated exhibits was 170 round explosives, weighing 34kg.

Mr. Thanh confessed that he illegally mined stone without any licensing documents from the competent authority. The explosives were bought on the open market to serve the stone mining.

"The explosives were purchased from a man named Son (in Nghia Dan district) for 150,000 VND/kg, and 15,000 VND/detonator. The explosives and detonators were hidden in the house to serve stone mining," Mr. Thanh said.

The project is currently being continued and expanded./.

Ngo Hoang