The Department of Justice (DOJ) will start filing charges against those involved in the illegal operations of the sunken tanker Princess Empress. “The DOJ will certainly file cases, that’s for sure. It’s just a matter of time. The only reason why we have not filed cases as of now is the conscious decision taken by the task force to ensure that cleanup and retrieval operations be done first,” DOJ Undersecretary Raul Vasquez said at yesterday’s joint inquiry of the House committees on natural resources and ecology on the oil spill from the sunken vessel.

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