The United States Justice Department announced Tuesday (2/24) that the Japanese corporation Hiong Guan Navegacion Japan Co. Ltd., which operates the commercial cargo ship M/V Balsa-62, has been sentenced to three years probation and $1.75 million in penalties for conspiring to falsify and falsifying environmental compliance records. The penalties stem from a Coast Guard investigation that found that two successive chief engineers bypassed the pollution prevention system onboard the M/V Balsa-62, and dumped oily water and sludge directly overboard and into the ocean approximately twice a month from Spring 2007 through Spring 2008.
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