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Master given two years suspended prison sentence for smuggling oil

The master of the "Lassea" has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence for his involvement in smuggling fuel during a salvage operation. The "Lassea" was contracted to take on fuel oil pumped up from the sunken Greek tanker "Agia Zoni II", which went down off Piraeus on Sep 10, 2017, with about 2,500 tonnes of petroleum in her tanks. Prosecutors said that marine officials found significant quantities of an undocumented petroleum mixture in the "Lassea"'s ballast tanks when she arrived at a refinery to deliver the oil recovered from the Zoni. The "Lassea" also had expired government certificates of seaworthiness, like the "Agia Zoni II", which was operating on an extension when she went down. The Security Office of the Central Port Authority of Piraeus arrested the "Lassea", her captain and chief engineer on smuggling charges. In their defense, the men claimed that the oil mixture had leaked into their ballast tanks during the salvage operations. The master was convicted and given a suspended sentence, and the engineer was found not guilty.

Tanker detained for suspicion of oil smuggling during Agia Zoni II-response

The captain and first engineer of the "Lassea", one of the ships helping in the effort to clean up the oil spill from a sunken "Agia Zoni II", in the Saronic Gulf has been arrested for fuel smuggling on Sep 19, 2017. The crew members were taken into custody after an inspection by customs and Coast guard authorities turned up significant quantities of fuel in the ship’s hold that wasn’t legally accounted for. The ship has been seized at the Asporpyrgos Terminal in Elevsis as an investigation is carried out into the provenance of its cargo. Report with photo: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/09/20/two-arrested-after-pumping-oil-from-sunken-tanker-that-polluted-athens-coastline/