German shipping company accused of faking pollution records
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A Germany-based shipping company is charged in Maine with failing to keep accurate pollution control records and falsifying others aboard a cargo ship.
The U.S. attorney's office says the nine-count indictment stems from the falsification of records in 2016 and 2017 to cover up overboard discharges of oily mixtures and wastewater from the Liberian-flagged cargo vessel, M/V Marguerita.
The indictment alleges that at least eight times, the ship entered U.S. waters and ports with a false and misleading oil record book available for inspection by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Indicted are management company MST Mineralien Schiffarht Spedition Und Transport and ship owner Reederei MS "Marguerita." It wasn't immediately known if they had a lawyer.
The company has transported clay slurry used in paper mills to the ports of Searsport and Portland.