Ship’s master charged
NZPA-Reuter Toronto The Canadian police had charged Captain Wolfgang Bindel arid two Sri Lankans living in West Germany casting adrift 155 Tamil refugees off the Newfoundland coast last month, “The Toronto Star” reported yesterday. The three were charged with conspiring to breach Canada’s immigration laws, said a Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector, Emerson Kaiser, from St John’s, Newfoundland.
Captain Brindel, aged 45, of Nordenham, West Germany, is charged with one criminal offence and one immigration offence. The Sri Lankans have each been charged with one criminal offence.
The newspaper said the offences were considered minor and were not extraditable. The maximum penalty upon conviction for both offences is a SUSIOOO ($2080) fine or six months in jail or both.
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