Environmental Group Files Complaint Against Apartment Construction Company CEO for Asbestos Detection

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[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] Environmental organizations filed a complaint on the 13th against the CEO of an apartment construction company and others for violating the Asbestos Safety Management Act after carcinogenic asbestos was detected in landscaping stones within an apartment complex.

The Environmental Health Citizens' Center, Incheon Environmental Movement Federation, and Korea Asbestos Abolition Network announced that they submitted a complaint to the Jungbu Police Station in Seoul on the same day against the construction company CEO, employees responsible for supplying landscaping stone materials, the person in charge of construction and landscaping at Apartment A, the person responsible at the landscaping stone supplier in Jecheon, Chungbuk, and officials from the Ministry of Environment.

The organizations claimed that after holding a press conference in April and collecting landscaping stone samples from Apartment A complex for analysis, tremolite asbestos was detected.

At that time, they emphasized, "There is a possibility that landscaping stones from a quarry near the asbestos mine in Jecheon, Chungbuk, which was problematic in 2010, were illegally distributed to this apartment," and added, "A thorough investigation of the distribution route along with a full inspection of apartments in Songdo is necessary."

Apartment A is known to house approximately 1,700 households and about 5,000 residents.

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