Waste batteries make millions of dollars in lead refining, but the cost of treatment is higher.

Chen, 33, graduated from junior high school from huaian, where he went to Shandong in 2010 to buy the used plastics business. Later, he learned that buying used lead batteries was very profitable and he wanted to do this business.

In 2016, when Chen returned to his hometown for the New Year, he met Zhang, an old fellow who worked in Suzhou, and talked about his own ideas. The two hit it off and invested 300,000 yuan respectively to start the lead battery recycling business. After a period of time, the two felt that the money was too slow and decided to carry out battery dismantling and refining lead ingots. Afterwards, Chen pulled over Humou, a veteran of this technology, and each invested 500,000 yuan to build a factory for dismantling and refining lead ingots for used lead batteries.

Chen and others knew that the business they were doing was illegal. They rented a more remote abandoned factory in Huaiyin District of Huai'an City to dismantle used lead batteries, and rented an abandoned brick and tile factory to make lead ingots in another place. In order to avoid the investigation and punishment of environmental protection departments and public security organs, they covered the windows of each factory building with blocking nets and transported used lead batteries and lead ingots at night.

Due to the hot business, Chen contacted his friend Hou Mou, who took a 1 million yuan stake and went on a production line. The daily production of lead ingots doubled.

In September 2017, the Huaiyin District Environmental Protection Bureau received a report from the public that a factory had emitted an unpleasant smell. Environmental protection bureau staff found that the case was significant, immediately contact the public security organs. On the same day, the public security organs filed a case for investigation and seized more than 100 tons of waste lead batteries, 9 tons of plastic shells, more than 78 tons of refined lead plates, and more than 60 tons of finished lead ingots.

The case was supervised by the Ministry of Public Security. From March 2016 to September 2017, criminal suspects Chen Mou and Zhang Mou employed Wang Mou, Mamou Mou, Li Jiangmou, Wu Mou, Li Yusheng and others to acquire more than 18,600 tons of used lead batteries, and refined more than 9,349 tons of lead ingots, involving a total amount of more than 100 million yuan. Illegal profits of more than 10 million yuan.

According to the evaluation of the Institute of Environmental Planning and Design of Nanjing University, the cost of ecological environmental damage management caused by the dismantling of waste lead batteries involved in this case amounted to 20 million yuan.

On September 7, the Qingjiangpu District Procuratorate of Huai'an City filed a public prosecution against 14 suspects in the case and recommended that the court impose penalties ranging from one year, six months to seven years 'imprisonment on the suspects Chen and Zhang.

The case is still under further consideration.

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