Water Pollution Control Act Article 39

For those circumstances in which a statutory responsible person of a juridical person, or an agent, employee or other working personnel of a juridical person or natural person, due to the performance of business activities, violates, Article 34 to 37, in addition to the perpetrator being punished pursuant to the regulations of each article violated, said juridical person or natural person shall also be fined up to ten times pursuant to the regulations of each Article violated.Any criminally obtained assets or property interests in the possession of those who have intentionally violated this Act shall be confiscated, with the exception of those which should be returned to the victims or those competent authority pursuant to Article 71 that perform clearance, disposal, improvement and derivative expenses in place of the polluter , regardless of whether it belongs to the offender or not,. If the above assets or property interests cannot be confiscated in whole or in part, the equivalent value thereof shall be indemnified either by demanding a payment from the offender or be offset by the property of the offender.To ensure the confiscation of the assets or property interests and a levy on payments or property compensation mentioned in the preceding paragraph, an appropriate amount of properties may be detained where necessary.