The chief engineer of an Eagle Bulk Shipping vessel has been sentenced to prison for dumping oil-contaminated bilge water.
The US Justice Department said district judge Nannette Jolivette Brown ordered Kirill Kompaniets to spend a year and a day in prison, in addition to paying $5,200 and spending six months on supervised release.
The sentencing in a federal court in New Orleans came after Kompaniets, a Russian national, pleaded guilty to knowingly discharging oily water off the US and to obstruction of justice.
