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The United States has charged a Greek cargo ship operator and two of its chief engineers with environmental crimes for allegedly failing to record the illegal dumping of oily waste into international waters and then obstructing justice by ordering the ship’s crew to lie about it. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles last week returned the five-count federal indictment against Capital Ship Management Corporation, a ship management company based in Piraeus, Greece, and Ioan Luca and Ionel Surla, both from Romania, alleging conspiracy to fail to maintain an accurate oil record book and to defraud the United States, failure to maintain an accurate oil record book, falsification of records in a matter of federal administration, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Luca and Surla both previously served as chief engineer on board the CMA CGM Amazon,a Liberian-flagged containership that is managed by Capital Ship Management Corp.