Nicolas Verbraeken was bailed out the other day for $100,000 from the Kholmsk city prosecutor's office that does not report the motives for which Verbraeken violated the terms of the bail and left Sakhalin for Primorye.
The captain of the technological vessel is charged with having failed to observe the instructions of the port administration in the expectation of the Songda typhoon-he was to lead his ship to the high seas from the inadequately-protected harbour. As a result, the Belgian ship ran aground 50 kilometres away from the shore of the city of Kholmsk and was holed in the hull; about 200 tons of oil products drained into the sea and polluted almost 600 kilometres of the seaside in the vicinity of the city.
Dozens of Kholmsk residents poisoned with fuel fumes have applied for medical aid. Russia has suffered the damage to the sum of more than 57 million roubles (slightly less than $2 million), according to early estimates.
