China丨Tough steps help reduce green cases

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Throughout the year, courts at all levels handled 2,012 criminal pollution cases, concluding 1,637 of them. Additionally, they addressed over 3,600 criminal cases involving illegal mining, resolving 2,956, the report stated.

It also highlighted that criminal punishments were given to individuals involved in smuggling endangered animals or their products, illegal fishing, unlawful hunting and timber theft.

For example, in a pollution case, a court in Jiangsu province ruled that a chemical company, a technology enterprise and several individuals were criminally liable for illegally discharging hazardous waste into a sewage treatment plant across regional boundaries. The verdict prompted the defendants to pay more than 14 million yuan ($1.95 million) in compensation for environmental damage.

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