Recently, a case of concealing the export of fireworks and firecrackers was investigated by the Port and Shipping Branch of the Ningbo Municipal Public Security Bureau and sentenced in the Zhenhai District People’s Court. The defendant was sentenced to four years, nine months and four years in prison for dangerously endangering public safety.
This is also the first case of concealed report of export of fireworks and firecrackers for the crime of endangering public safety with dangerous cargo .
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How to conceal the export of customs fireworks and firecrackers will become an option for criminals to grab high profits?
It turned out that the Chinese government has strict regulations on the production and transportation of fireworks and firecrackers. Only a very small number of ports are allowed to open export business after strict approval by government departments, and this business is also prohibited in Ningbo Zhoushan Port. On the other hand, some countries have a great demand for fireworks and firecrackers imported from China. BW is also one of the few Chinese freight forwarders that can qualify for the declaration of fireworks and firecrackers. Of course, the premise is that Chinese fireworks and firecrackers companies must have all the dangerous goods export documents.
The criminal suspects take risks in front of interests. From March to July 2018, suppliers of illegal fireworks and firecrackers in China reached a fireworks and firecrackers sales agreement with buyers in North Africa, Southeast Asia and other countries. After purchasing related products, they entrusted others to declare customs by concealing customs and treating them as ordinary goods. It was ready to be exported through Ningbo Port, and then was seized by Ningbo Customs on the spot and handed over to the port public security.
After the inventory, the container involved in this case contained a total of 1981 boxes of fireworks and 244 boxes of “handheld flame signals”, and the total amount of gunpowder reached 3450 kg.
Under the unified command of the Ningbo Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Ningbo Port and Shipping Branch carried out special investigations on the case since February 2019, and has traveled to Guangdong, Guangzhou, Hunan Liuyang, Jiangxi Shangli, Zhejiang Jinhua and other major Chinese fireworks and firecrackers supply area more than ten times. Business gathering place, investigation and evidence collection. In May 2019, the two main criminal suspects successively went to public security organs to surrender, and actively explained the criminal facts of illegally engaging in the export of fireworks and firecrackers by means of concealing customs declarations and replacing goods in the middle.
In 2019, the Port and Shipping Bureau successively cracked 18 similar cases, killed 4 criminal gangs, and 30 criminal suspects were subject to criminal coercive measures. At the same time, the fireworks and firecrackers involved in the case have been safely destroyed according to law. If you have dangerous goods exported from China, BW will be your best choice. Professional dangerous goods operation is the basis to ensure the smooth export of your dangerous goods.
Fireworks and firecrackers belong to the class of flammable and explosive dangerous goods, especially in the hot summer days, the temperature inside the container after the hot sun can reach 70 degrees. These fireworks and firecrackers are like an “untimed bomb” at high temperatures. The export of fireworks and firecrackers in violation of regulations by hiding and concealing, and the lack of corresponding security measures will bring great security risks.
The fireworks and firecrackers that conceal customs declarations involve land transportation, port warehousing, and shipping. If an accident occurs, it will inevitably endanger the lives and property of most people on public roads, ports, and docks. Therefore, this behavior has the nature of endangering public safety.
In fact, the risk of accidents on the ocean liner is even higher. Once the fire cannot be controlled, the safety of the entire ocean liner cannot be guaranteed. Once again, it is reiterated that concealing the hazards of fireworks and firecrackers is not only due to the hazards of fireworks and firecrackers themselves, and concealing customs After the fireworks and firecrackers caused dangers in various links, it was also due to the adverse impact on the development of the industry, port operations, and national image. Its huge social harm is self-evident.
“Concealed customs declaration fireworks and firecrackers are always operated without specific safety supervision during transportation, storage, loading and unloading, which brings potential risks to public safety. Once an accident occurs, it will not only transport the port, but also the entire city. Safety has a serious impact. The successful verdict in this case is a good start. “Wu Liangyong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Port and Shipping Bureau.
According to reports, in April 2019, the Municipal Public Security Bureau set up a special research team to conduct a special study on the illegal export of fireworks and firecrackers in Ningbo Port. In June of the same year, Ningbo City deployed a special rectification operation, which formed the transportation, public security, emergency management, political and legal commission, development and reform commission, finance, commerce, market supervision, procuratorate, court, customs, maritime, Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group, etc.13 A long-term working mechanism for joint remediation of family units.