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Article: Ship Operator Sentenced to Pay More Than $2 Million Fine for Concealing Pollution On the High Seas.
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- August 14, 2009
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The operator of an ocean-going chemical tanker ship was sentenced today in federal court to pay a fine of more than $2 million for polluting the high seas, the Justice Department announced.
Consultores de Navegacion, a Spanish company that operates the M/T Nautilus, an ocean-going chemical tanker ship, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to pay a fine of more than $2 million and serve three years of probation for criminal violations related to the overboard discharge of oil-contaminated bilge waste on the high seas.
The company pleaded guilty on April 6, 2009, to conspiracy, falsification of records, obstruction, and two ...