Zim officer gets 1-year community sentence after vessel collision kills 7
The second officer of the Zim operated container ship that collided with a Japanese fishing boat at the end of last year, killing seven people, has been sentenced to 12 months community service following a plea bargain.
Croatian national Pilastro Zdravko was in charge of the Israeli carrier’s 3,834-TEU vessel “Zim Asia” when it crashed into a small fishing vessel Sept. 28, 2005, about 25 miles off the north coast of Japan.
Following an initial not guilty plea, Zdravko was sentenced by a magistrate’s court in Haifa, Israel to six months in prison on a charge of causing death by negligence. The sentence was later converted to a year of public service at the Port of Haifa when a plea bargain was accepted by the prosecution as witnesses from Japan were either unable or unwilling to travel to testify, according to Israel’s Channel 2 TV.
Zim officer gets 1-year community sentence after vessel collision kills 7
