{"id":260666,"date":"2020-07-07T01:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260666"},"modified":"2020-07-07T01:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:54:40","slug":"pcg-files-raps-against-mv-vienna-wood-shipping-firm-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/07\/pcg-files-raps-against-mv-vienna-wood-shipping-firm-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"PCG files raps against MV Vienna Wood shipping firm, officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcoastguardph%2Fposts%2F556903344978324&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"733\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has filed a criminal complaint against four of Hong Kong-flagged MV Vienna Wood\u2019s ranking officers and its shipping company a week after colliding with Filipino fishing vessel (F\/V) Liberty 5.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on Monday, PCG Commodore Armando Balilo said a criminal case of reckless imprudence resulting in multiple homicide and damage to property were filed against the shipmaster, officers, and Nomikos Transworld Maritime, the merchant vessel\u2019s shipping company.<\/p>\n<p>The charge sheet, he said, specifically named Zhang Weiwei from Shandong, China; Shin Bin from Henan, China; Yi Lei, from Jilin, China; and Yang Xileng from Shandong as respondents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPCG Station Commander of Occidental Mindoro, LT Valerie Lagua, acted as the complainant. Witnesses include PCG personnel, responders, and fishermen,\u201d Balilo said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the complaint was filed at the office of Provincial Prosecutor Rowena Garcia-Villaflores in Occidental Mindoro on Sunday to determine probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>In its media bulletin, the PCG said the charges were filed after taking into consideration the eyewitness accounts of fishermen and other mariners who were first-responders to the collision, admission of the collision from MV Vienna Wood\u2019s captain, the nature and extent of damage to both vessels, and evidence gathered by PCG personnel in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro and the PCG Southern Luzon District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a finding of criminal negligence on the part of the MV Vienna Wood in relation to the collision, sufficient to file a case against it,\u201d the PCG said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Balilo said the search and retrieval operations for the 14 missing Filipino crew have been extended until Tuesday (July 7) in the waters off Tayamaan, Mamburao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has filed a criminal complaint against four of Hong Kong-flagged MV Vienna Wood\u2019s ranking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":260667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-raymond-carl-dela-cruz","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260668,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260666\/revisions\/260668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}