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Former OW Bunker Manager Sentenced to 18-Month Jail Term
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, May 30 (Reuters)– A Danish court on Wednesday punished the previous supervisor of OW Bunker’s Singapore subsidiary to 18 months behind bars after he was condemned of providing credit scores outside his required, adding to the personal bankruptcy of the aquatic gas oil provider.
The 2014 personal bankruptcy of OW Bunker, after that the globe’s leading provider of aquatic gas oil with a 7 percent market share, sent out shockwaves with the worldwide delivery sector and also left financiers and also service companions rushing to cover their losses.
The city court of Aalborg stated it located Lars Moller, head of Dynamic Oil Trading in Singapore, guilty of providing a trading companion an unrecoverable credit scores worth $90.2 million without having the authority to do so from the administration in Denmark and also without tape-recording it in the business’s audit system.
The district attorney had actually looked for a fiver-year prison sentence for violation of count on.
The court stated that Moller had actually not shown the objective of profiting himself or others.
OW Bunker applied for personal bankruptcy in Denmark in November 2014 after exposing losses at Dynamic Oil Trading in addition to hedging losses of practically $300 million at its Danish head office, a significant adjustment of lot of money for a firm valued at $1 billion when it noted in March that year.
Moller’s support legal representative Anders Nemeth informed TV2 broadcaster the 18-month sentence was “not unexpected” which it still was unclear whether Moller would certainly appeal versus the decision.
Arvid Andersen, an additional of Moller’s support attorneys, formerly informed Reuters there had actually been no criminal task.
A team of 26 institutional financiers, consisting of 2 of the biggest pension plan funds in Denmark, ATP and also PFA, is additionally incoming a lawful war the previous administration of OWBunker The financiers charge OW Bunker of deceiving them in its 2014 going public. ($ 1 = 6.3951 Danish crowns) (Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen Editing by David Goodman and also Alexandra Hudson)
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