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Many years of ‘declaring war’, still helpless with the problem of ‘ear cutting and grinding’ gas cylinders

Gas cylinders are still rampant, threatening fire safety for users. However, the authorities have not been able to completely prevent this dangerous problem.

Rapidly detecting the appropriation of gas cylinders and illegal extraction

As VietNamNet reported, on March 29, Hanoi authorities conducted an investigation to clarify the case of thousands of gas cylinders with different brands gathered at the Gas Import-Export and Trading Joint Stock Company. Van Loc Liquefied Gas (address at Lot CN4 – Nguyen Khe Industrial Park, Dong Anh, Hanoi).

Many years of ‘declaring war’, still helpless with the problem of ‘ear cutting and grinding’ gas cylinders
The scandal of ‘saws and sharpened shells’ of gas cylinders, businesses reported to the police

Lieutenant Colonel Ngo Van Kien, Deputy Captain of the Economic Police Team, Dong Anh District Police, said that a license plate vehicle controlled by Nghe An was detected. gas bottle from City. Vinh (Nghe An) to Nguyen Khe Industrial Park.

“Recognizing signs of violations in LPG trading, we have counted and screened out which brands of gas are using, and which units are not using the quantity (gas cylinders). other brands) is very large. Dong Anh district police are coordinating with market management forces to clarify, if they violate the law, they will be handled,” said Mr. Kien.

During the past time, Vietnam LPG Trading Joint Stock Company, Northern Branch, Quang Binh Petroleum Company Limited, EPIC Petroleum Joint Stock Company, Quang Tri Petroleum Company Limited have continuously filed a “request for help” from the authorities. authorities about the problem of gas cylinders being appropriated by other companies. The incident at Van Loc liquefied gas company was also monitored and discovered by these units, and then reported to the authorities.

In fact, for many years, the problem of appropriating gas cylinders has been rampant, affecting not only the enterprises owning the gas brand but also threatening the safety of users. On July 16, 2021, Quang Tri Petroleum Company Limited also filed a petition to the Ha Tinh Provincial Police, reflecting on the problem of illegally transporting, trading, and possessing gas cylinders bearing the Green Petrol brand name. Gas QHT of this company in Ha Tinh area.

According to the report, from November 2020 to the end of June 2021, this company lost about 8,000 LPG containers, the damage was estimated at 4 billion VND. These shells were ordered in Hanoi and Thai Binh, but when they returned to Ha Tinh and distributed to the market, they gradually disappeared for unknown reasons. Since then, the number of gas cylinders of enterprises has been continuously “flying without wings”.

In fact, many cases of transporting gas cylinders with signs of illegal appropriation have also been discovered. In January 2021, the Information Management Team No. 5, Hai Phong Department of Information Management, in collaboration with the Economic Police Team of the Hong Bang District Police, caught a facility with 4 LPG extraction machines operating with over 9,000kg of LPG gas in the factory. tec and other machines serving the gas extraction process. In the warehouse, there are many gas cylinders with brands of brands such as: PetroVietnam gas, TotalGaz, Dai Hai Petro, Clean Energy, Hong Ha gas, Sai Gon gas, Vnshingas Petrol…

In the whole year of 2021, the market management force of Tien Giang, Ha Tinh, Thanh Hoa… also discovered many cases of appropriating LPG cylinders.

After many years of declaring war, helpless with gas cylinders 'saws and sharpens shells'
A case of illegal extraction of gas was discovered

Violation is rampant, still can’t be stopped

In 2018, when the accident ‘ear saw sharpening shell’ The situation was serious, Mr. Dinh Tien Dung, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the National Steering Committee 389 at that time issued an official dispatch to the Steering Committee 389 of localities across the country requesting enhanced inspection and handling. violation of gas trading activities.

According to the National Board of 389, the domestic gas production and trading market in the country has many complicated developments, unfair competition, and violations of the law with acts such as: Illegal gas extraction, fake gas, poor quality. quality, illegal possession of gas cylinders (LPG) of each other; cutting ears, grinding shells, repainting labels and trademarks, appropriating and destroying bottles, causing economic losses, unfair competition, risking fire safety.

The National Steering Committee 389 asked the Heads of the 389 Steering Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities to direct the functional forces to focus on basic investigation, review and strict control of face-to-face production and business activities. gas goods to take management measures in accordance with the provisions of law.

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Enterprises illegally collecting vases buy about 200,000 VND/case, then they cut the ears, grind the shells, repaint and label them for only about 160,000 VND/case. The total cost to rebuild each bottle is about 360,000 VND. Meanwhile, the cost of a new gas cylinder is more than 570,000 VND, the difference is more than 200,000 VND/case, making them a profit equivalent to 36%.

From the perspective of the industry and trade sector, at a meeting in January 2018, Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh also severely criticized the market management force when letting the situation change to extracting gas, cutting ears, grinding teeth. shell, occupying the vase occurs common.

After that, the special working group of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on handling the case of “cutting ears and grinding shells”, illegally seizing gas cylinders had an urgent meeting at the headquarters of the Market Management Department in Hanoi. But since then, this problem has not ended as listed above.

When presenting at the gas business conference at the end of 2021, the Vietnam Gas Association said that there is still unfair competition, illegal acts, deception to consumers, causing economic damage. economy, property, and reputation of other enterprises. Specifically, such as appropriating LPG bottles (liquefied petroleum gas) of the owner, illegally extracting them into the bottle of the owner; violating regulations on trademarks and goods labels of reputable enterprises in LPG extraction.

Most of the cases that were discovered were only at the administrative level, making this situation still rampant, while the profits from “appropriating gas cylinders” were huge. According to experts, it is necessary to have criminal sanctions for these acts to create a healthy and equal competition environment, especially for the safety of customers because of the risk of fire and explosion. These non-standard gas cylinders are very large.

Ha Duy

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