The captain of a freight vessel called Vera Su that had actually been stranded near Kamen Bryag on Bulgaria’s Black Sea in 2021’s September has actually been punished to 3 years of jail time. He has actually likewise been put on hold from solution for the following 5 years.
On 14 February, the District Court in Dobrich had actually supported an appeal deal in between the ship’s captain as well as the district attorneys. The captain begged guilty to the costs of large residential property damages as well as for positioning threats to various other people.
The 59-year-old ship captain called Haydar Ergun was asked to spend for court prices approximated to be around 7203 leva.
Prosecutors reported that a previous examination had actually verified that on 20 September 2021, the Turkish- crewed as well as Panamanian- flagged Vera Su apparently ran stranded after its ship captain allowed the vessel to maintain cruising without a functional system for bridge watch. In the evening, there was simply one task leader as well as no hunt.
It can also be feasible that it was calculated, per district attorneys. The ship’s captain has, nevertheless, determined not to make an allure versus the present court judgment.
The vessel was efficiently pulled to Varna, the Black Sea port in Bulgaria over a month because it had actually run stranded. Bulgaria is currently defending payment from the vessel’s proprietor.
Vera Su’s very first friend’s charge is still pending. A pre-trial procedure is presently proceeding in 2 others locations, per the Prosecutor’sOffice These are whether salt water was contaminated, the setting was harmed, or whether activities by pertinent bodies had actually been punctual as well as exact.
