🚢Shipping Company Will Pay Million Dollar Fine for Environmental Pollution Crimes
A Japanese shipping company that delivered steel products to Wilmington, NC, was convicted and sentenced today for obstruction of justice and falsification of an Oil Record Book to cover-up intentional oil pollution from the Motor Vessel (“M/V”) Atlantic Oasis, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood and United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon Jr.
Nitta Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (“Nitta”) owned and operated the M/V Atlantic Oasis.
The prior Chief Engineer, Jihnyun Youn, had previously been convicted and sentenced for falsification of the vessel’s Oil Record Book.
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