Defendant

A Imprisonment for one year, and Defendant B for a fine of 7,00,000 won, respectively.

Defendant

Co., Ltd.

Punishment of the crime

2019 Highest 262

1. The head of a Si/Gun/Gu, etc. may order the person who treats the wastes to take necessary measures, such as change of the method of disposal, suspension of disposal or bringing in, where the wastes have been disposed of in a manner inconsistent with the standards for and methods of waste disposal; and

From July 19, 2018 to December 4, 2018, the Defendant stored approximately 5,906 tons of waste exceeding the permissible storage capacity of 432 tons at the place of business of a joint stock company located in Gyeong-gun, Gyeong-gun, Gyeong-gun, Gyeong-gun, and issued an order to dispose of the said waste illegally stored by the head of Gun on December 24, 2018, but did not comply therewith.

2. A, who is an employee of the Defendant B, committed an act identical to that set forth in paragraph 1.

Where the Minister of Environment or a Mayor/Do Governor intends to order a waste treatment business operator to cancel permission or suspend his/her business, or to order the person who has reported waste treatment to close down or prohibit waste treatment, he/she may order the waste treatment business operator or the person who has reported waste treatment to dispose of the wastes, and the waste treatment business operator shall comply with the above order.

Defendant

A is a waste disposal business entity that operates “B” a waste disposal business entity located in Gyeong-gun, Gyeong-gun, Gyeong-gun, and has been ordered by the head of the Gun on December 24, 2018 when storing approximately KRW 5,906 tons of waste, such as waste vinyl, in excess of the permissible storage quantity, at the place of business of the said company.

Accordingly, Defendant A, on July 21, 2019, stored approximately 340 tons of the above wastes at the “E” place of business where the treatment of waste vinyl is prohibited in Seongbuk-gun, Sung-gun, Seongbuk-gun, in order to pretend the above wastes as if they were legally disposed of. On August 16, 2019, Defendant A received an order from the head of Sungju-gun to lawfully dispose of the above 340 tons of the wastes by September 18, 2019, and did not implement the order.