Dutch court fines company over ICoast waste dump
An undated file picture shows the Probo Koala ship at the port in Amsterdam.
A Dutch court slapped a one-million-euro (1.3-million-dollar) fine on a Switzerland-based company whose chartered ship dumped waste alleged to have killed 17 people in Ivory Coast in 2006.
"The court sentences Trafigura to a fine of one million euros," presiding judge Frans Bauduin said in the Amsterdam district court, finding the company guilty of breaking European waste export laws.
The court sentenced the captain of the Probo Koala ship, 46-year-old Sergiy Chertov, to a five-year suspended jail term, and fined 43-year-old Trafigura employee Naeem Ahmed 25, 000 euros.
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