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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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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- July 27, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-
202-514-2007, TDD, +1-202-514-1888
WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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 theM/
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 ...