Chief Engineer indicted in pollution case

摘要

The Chief Engineer of a foreign flagged oil tanker owned by OSG has been indicted in connection with concealing deliberate discharges of oil-contaminated bilge in the Gulf of Mexico. A statement issued by Matthew D. Orwig, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, and Assistant Attorney General Sue Ellen Wooldridge, of the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, announced that Kun Yun Jho has been charged with conspiracy, making false statements and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships for his alleged role in maintaining false Oil Record Books that concealed tampering with required pollution prevention equipment.