Taking advantage of the lax management of the district-level government before its dissolution, the commune level has just operated under the two-level local government model while the mineral management team of the departments and branches is both lacking and thin, so the situation of violations in the field of mineral exploitation in Ha Tinh province has tended to increase recently. Among them, some cases of law violations are serious in nature.
Widespread violations
In early May 2025, based on feedback from the people, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Hong Linh town (old) coordinated with the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ha Tinh province to inspect the mineral exploitation area that was in the process of environmental restoration and improvement in Dau Lieu ward, Hong Linh town and Vuong Loc commune, Can Loc district (old) and discovered that the enterprise had invested and built many illegal and illegal works.
Accordingly, at this location with an area of 3.68 hectares, the People's Committee of Ha Tinh province granted a mineral exploitation license No. 1280/GP-UBND dated April 14, 2015 to exploit construction stone for VN1 Industrial Group Joint Stock Company. During the exploitation process, due to many violations, on August 26, 2023, the People's Committee of Ha Tinh province issued Decision No. 2000/QD-UBND to revoke and terminate the validity of the granted mineral exploitation license; at the same time, on April 10, 2024, this locality also issued a decision on approving the Mine Closure Project.
In these decisions, Ha Tinh province requires enterprises to renovate the slopes, combine rocks to create drainage ditches at the bottom of the mine, create a surface for planting trees to restore the environment... these tasks must be completed within 6 months. On November 5, 2024, the People's Committee of Ha Tinh province issued a decision to close the mine to manage and protect unexploited minerals and hand over the land to local authorities for management.
However, instead of returning the land as prescribed, VN1 Industrial Group Corporation has arbitrarily and secretly built a number of structures such as temporary houses, huts, many lighting poles, internal road systems... on the land which are not in accordance with the decision approving the mine closure project. In addition, on an area of nearly 12,000m2 of land In addition to a 50-year lease for the purpose of building a stone processing facility and producing construction materials, VN1 Industrial Group Corporation has also built and is operating a concrete mixing station without being licensed by competent authorities.
Immediately after discovering the incident, the Urban Management Department coordinated with the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Hong Linh town and Dau Lieu ward (old) to draw up a record and suspend the construction activities. To date, these violations have not been completely handled.
Also during this time, taking advantage of the huge demand for sand materials for construction in the North Central provinces, while the supply was scarce, many individuals and organizations saw "loopholes" in mineral management in Ha Tinh, so they turned this area into a place to illegally exploit, transport, and consume common construction materials for illegal profit.
Accordingly, in order to provide sand for filling the Eco Central Park Project in Truong Vinh Ward, Nghe An Province, invested by Vietnam - Laos Economic Cooperation Corporation, contractors who signed contracts to construct the project's leveling items, including 68 Quang Binh Consulting and Construction Company Limited (headquartered in Quang Tri Province) and Quang Ninh Construction Investment Consulting Joint Stock Company JSC (headquartered in Quang Ninh Province), colluded with a number of subjects in Nghe An to buy floating sand without legal invoices.
To have the volume of sand to sell to contractors, the subjects hired illegal mining ships in the Lam River area in the territory of Ha Tinh and Nghe An provinces. The volume of floating sand was exploited and gathered at two locations including the sand mining area and the sand gathering area in Duc Quang commune and Bac Hong Linh ward, Ha Tinh province before being transported to the Eco Central Park Project in Nghe An province for filling. Using this trick, from August 2024 to March 2025, the subjects issued and sold many fake VAT invoices, illegally profiting more than 5 billion VND.
The incident was only discovered when on March 23, the Department of Patrol, Control and Crime Prevention and Control on Inland Waterways (Traffic Police Department) discovered and coordinated with the Economic Police Department of Ha Tinh Provincial Police to discover and arrest 5 vehicles that were exploiting, transporting and pumping sand at the above locations. To date, the Investigation Police Agency of Ha Tinh Provincial Police has prosecuted 3 related subjects for the crime of "Illegal trading of invoices".
Tighten management in exploitation
According to the report of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ha Tinh province, recently, related to the State management of minerals, because Ha Tinh is simultaneously implementing many large projects such as the project of investing in construction and business of infrastructure of Vinhomes Vung Ang industrial park and investment projects in Vung Ang Economic Zone, the project of investing in construction and business of infrastructure of Gia Lach expanded industrial park, the project of investing in construction and business of infrastructure of Bac Thach Ha industrial park (VSIP Ha Tinh phase 1)... so the supply of filling materials and common construction materials has increased.
Although the Department of Agriculture and Environment has focused and proactively handled the issue according to its authority, the results have not met the requirements, and there have been no effective solutions, especially at the time of implementing the two-level local government model. In particular, in the delimitation of areas with potential for land leveling, reviewing low-lying hilly areas with potential for land leveling to put into exploitation to create land funds to attract investment, localities still have problems in land management in the mine area that has been recovered and handed over to the locality.
Also in the past time, when the specialized team in charge of mineral management at the district level was dissolved, the commune level had just started operating while the Minerals Department under the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ha Tinh currently does not have a head of department in charge, with only 4 people, so the management of activities in the mining sector has encountered many difficulties, leading to widespread violations in the operation of enterprises. In particular, the violations that emerged were enterprises exploiting beyond their annual permitted capacity and compared to the regulations in the granted mineral exploitation license; violating labor safety and hygiene and environmental hygiene; exploiting and using minerals as common construction materials within the land area of the project to serve the construction of that project but not registering the area, capacity, volume, method, equipment and exploitation plan; violating in the dossier to participate in the auction of the right to exploit minerals as common construction materials; Violations in the process of making documents and mine closure procedures... In which, some serious cases had to be transferred to the Investigation Police Agency of Ha Tinh Provincial Police for handling according to regulations.
In the coming time, to restore order in mineral exploitation, especially minerals used as common construction materials in the area, the People's Committee of Ha Tinh province is focusing on reviewing the plan for auctioning mineral exploitation rights, in which the immediate focus is on handling the winning bid of VSIP Ha Tinh Company Limited and handling the source of filling materials for large projects such as Vinhomes Vung Ang Industrial Park and investment projects in Vung Ang Economic Zone, Gia Lach Industrial Park Infrastructure Investment and Business Project.
Ha Tinh province also directed the Chairmen of the People's Committees of the new communes and wards to promptly take over the tasks, powers and responsibilities as prescribed after the commune and ward authorities have come into operation. Immediately review, assign tasks and direct the implementation of State management of land and mineral resources in the area, closely coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Environment in conducting surveys and delimiting areas with potential minerals for common construction materials to be exploited to create land funds to attract investment.
Commune and ward authorities shall strengthen the management of mineral mine areas that have finished exploitation, closed mines, and handed them over to local management; at the same time, focus on overcoming existing problems related to the closure of mineral mines in the province. Chairmen of the People's Committees of relevant communes and wards shall be responsible to the Provincial People's Committee and the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee in case of delay in coordination.
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