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Chief Engineer Sentenced To 5 Months For Falsifying Records, Discharging Oil |
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Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:10 |
The US Attorney General for the District of New Jersey reported [Warning: PDF link] that the Chief Engineer of the M/T Clipper Trojan was sentenced to five months in prison and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine for failing to record and disclose illegal discharges of oily sludge and oil-contaminated bilge waste from the ship. The engineer, Fernando Magnaye, of Quezon City, The Philippines pled guilty to presenting falsified ship logs to the US Coast Guard and attempting to obstruct a Coast Guard inspection.
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During a Coast Guard inspection of the vessel in Port Newark, NJ, Magnaye presented the ship's oil record book for inspection, claiming that the entries were accurate. Magnaye also admitted that he instructed a fourth engineer aboard the vessel to ensure that the Coast Guard took a false reading from the ship's bilge sludge oil tank.
The engineer, along with Clipper Wonsild Tankers, the ship's operator, Clipper Marine Services, the ship's technical manager, and and Trojan Shipping Co, Ltd., the ship's registered owner, were indicted on the charges in March 2007.
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