South Korean prosecutors are seeking a 30-million-won (US$29,120) fine against Samsung Heavy Industries Co. for its role in the country's worst oil spill last year, an official said Wednesday.
Prosecutors recommended Wednesday that the local court in Seosan also sentence three crew members of a crane-carrying barge and its two tugboats _ all operated by Samsung Heavy _ to three years in jail on charges of polluting the ocean, local prosecutor Park Ha-young said.
The Samsung Heavy barge slammed into the Hong Kong-registered tanker Hebei Spirit on Dec. 7, releasing 78,920 barrels of oil into South Korea's western coastal waters. The spill jeopardized the …
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