Hanny Cornelesz, 52, was sentenced to 28 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to one charge of criminal breach of trust and one charge of illegal departure from Singapore. One other charge was taken into consideration during sentencing.
The marine gas oil belonged to Santarli Constructions, which had chartered the ship from Eng Hup Shipping in February 2016 for a project. To siphon the gas, one of the crew members would switch on a pump to transfer some of the newly received gas from one manhole in the ship’s engine room to another. However, their actions were discovered an hour later by a fellow employee of Eng Hup Shipping who was on board another ship.
Ponto was sentenced to six weeks’ jail after pleading guilty on Sept 29, 2016. The other accomplices remain at large.
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