The 14 defendants are members of Peng Moumou and other illegal mining criminal groups. From the second half of 2019 to November 2020, they provided lookout, pump station, metering and other help for Peng Moumou and Lu Moumou's illegal illegal mining of river sand in the Yangtze River waters around Dongliangshan, Wuhu Economic and Technological Development Zone. The group illegally mined more than 170000 tons of river sand, The illegally mined river sand is worth more than 4.6 million yuan.

In recent years, with the rising price of sand and gravel, some lawbreakers, in order to make huge profits, are desperate to ignore the legal bottom line and steal river sand, damaging the Yangtze River waterway, affecting the reproduction and habitat of aquatic organisms and damaging the ecological environment of the Yangtze River. In recent years, the People's Procuratorate of the Economic and Technological Development Zone has severely cracked down on illegal mining, illegal fishing of aquatic products and other criminal activities, achieved the unity of "three effects" in handling cases, deeply understood the important statement of General Secretary Xi Jinping that "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", focused on the protection and restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River, gave full play to the procuratorial function, and protected "green mountains and green waters" Protect the ecology of the Yangtze River and contribute procuratorial power.

The case will be sentenced on an optional date.