Chief Engineer of Liberian Cargo Ship Sentenced to 6 Mos Prison
On June 6, 2011, the Justice Department announced that Dimitrios Grifakis, the chief engineer of the Liberian-operated cargo ship M/V Capitola, was sentenced to six months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for obstructing a May 2010…
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Coast Guard inspection into the illegal overboard discharge of oily waste. Grifakis had denied having ordered anyone to pump oily waste overboard and falsified documents to hide these discharges from inspectors in ports visited by the Capitola. Grifakis also obstructed the investigation by concealing certain ship's records and then denying that such records existed.