Tag: prison

A Hungarian court condemned Ukraine's cruise captain to five and a half years in jail for involvement in a Danube crash in 2019 that killed 27 people.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a chief engineer has been sentenced to twelve months and a day in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and failure to maintain an accurate oil record book.

The US Department of Justice announced that the Chief Engineer of a foreign flagged vessel was sentenced to prison for deliberately discharging approximately 10,000 gallons of oil-contaminated bilge water overboard in U.S. waters off the coast of New Orleans last year, and for obstructing justice.

Norway's supreme court upheld the conviction of shipowner Georg Eide in relation to the attempted export and scrapping of the LASH vessel Eide Carrier.

After being held in an Iranian jail for months, four Indian seafarers were released on July 29. However, hours after, they were once again taken back to prison.

3 out of 10 Pirates Released Due to Lack of Evidence

Somali Pirates Sentenced to 16 Years

Somalis who fired rockets at a ship for fun jailed

21 months in prison A Miami-based ship surveyor was sentenced today for lying to the Coast Guard and for falsely certifying that inspections had been performed on two ships, which were designed to ensure that the ships were seaworthy and did not pose a threat to the crew or the marine environment.Alejandro Gonzalez, 60, of Miami-Dade County, Fla., was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to 21 months in prison.On May 24, 2012, a federal jury found Gonzalez guilty of lying to a Coast Guard inspector and a federal agent about the drydocking of the M/V Cala Galdana, a 68-meter cargo vessel, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in April 2009 and December 2009.Coast Guard inspectors in San Juan discovered the vessel taking on water in August of 2008 and requested the last drydocking of the vessel. Gonzalez concocted a false story about the vessel being drydocked in Colombia in 2006 when he knew it was not. Gonzalez repeatedly claimed the vessel had been drydocked in Cartegena, Colombia, in March of 2006, while evidence at the trial proved conclusively that the vessel was never in Colombia during 2006.Gonzalez was also convicted of falsifying documents for the ...

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