HÀ NỘI – Lương Duy Hanh, dismissed as head of the Environmental Protection Department for his wrongdoings in the 2016 Formosa plant pollution disaster, was later appointed deputy head of the team inspecting the company’s activities. Hanh was accused of irresponsibility over the flawed environmental treatment systems at the Formosa steel plant that resulted in mass marine deaths off the coasts of four central provinces. However, a list of the team members investigating environmental treatment acitivities of Formosa’s plants in Hà Tĩnh Province, issued on July 17 this year by the Environment Administration, named Hanh as the vice head. Speaking to the media, a representative of the Environment Administration confirmed that Hanh had been appointed as second in command of the team. In June, he was discharged from his position as head of Environmental Protection Department and assigned as a specialist in the ministry’s Legal Affairs Department.

Source: Viet Nam News October 04, 2017 14:03 UTC