OSLO, May 15 (Reuters) - A Norwegian naval officer was
found guilty on Monday and sentenced to a two-month suspended
jail sentence for negligence leading up to the 2018 collision
between a warship he commanded and an oil tanker in which the
military vessel sank.
Building a replacement for the lost Helge Ingstad frigate
would have cost up to 13 billion crowns ($1.24 billion), the
armed forces estimated in a 2019 report.
The early-morning crash between the Ingstad and the fully
loaded Sola TS crude carrier near a major North Sea oil export
terminal also triggered shutdowns of parts of Norway's petroleum
production. There was no leak from the oil tanker.
The defendant was the officer in charge on the bridge of the
Ingstad at the time. He had pleaded not guilty to negligence. He
believes he was unfairly singled out for blame, his lawyer
Christian Lundin has said.
The prosecution had asked for a four-month suspended jail
sentence.
($1 = 10.4882 Norwegian crowns)
(Reporting by Gwladys Fouche, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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