First charges filed over BP spill

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Posted by admin | Posted on 25-04-2012

Category : Business, World News

Tags: accused, charge, connection, criminal, disaster, engineer, gulf, justice, obstruction, oil, spill

A former BP engineer is accused in the US of obstruction of justice over the 2010 Gulf oil spill – the first criminal charge in connection with the disaster.