A man has been charged for court following an oil spill in the Bay of Gibraltar earlier this month. 

A statement from the RGP follows below:

Last Friday evening (18 August) at New Mole House, Sangsob Kim, 56, the Captain  of the tanker the Gas Venus, was charged with one count of Discharge Into Or  Allows Escaping Into, British Gibraltar Territorial Waters Oil Of Any  Description and one count of Damaging A Resting Place Of A Wild Animal Of A European Protected Species. 

It followed an incident on the morning of Tuesday 1 August this month, as the tanker  took on fuel a short distance from the South Mole. 

The spill was of heavy fuel oil, which is used to power ship engines. Some of the oil  washed ashore in Gibraltar, causing the temporary closure of Camp Bay and Rosia  Bay. 

The Captain was charged following an investigation by Royal Gibraltar Police Marine  Section officers, with assistance from the Gibraltar Port Authority and the  Department of the Environment. 

Sangsob was bailed and will appear before the Magistrate’s Court this morning (21  August).