Baltimore City Fire Boat 2 floats past the Dali instrumentality vas aft it struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River successful Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., connected Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
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Federal agents person boarded a vas managed by the aforesaid institution arsenic a cargo vessel that caused the deadly Baltimore span collapse, the FBI has confirmed.
In statements Saturday, spokespeople for the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office successful Maryland confirmed that authorities person boarded the Maersk Saltoro. The vessel is managed by Synergy Marine Group.
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division and Coast Guard Investigative Services are contiguous aboard the Maersk Saltoro conducting tribunal authorized instrumentality enforcement activity," statements from some the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Authorities did not connection further specifics.
In a suit Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department has alleged that Dali proprietor Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and manager Synergy Marine Group, some of Singapore, recklessly chopped corners and ignored known electrical problems connected the vas that had a powerfulness outage moments earlier it crashed into a enactment file connected the Francis Scott Key Bridge successful March.
The Justice Department is seeking to retrieve much than $100 cardinal the authorities spent to wide the underwater debris and reopen the city's port.
Darrell Wilson, a Grace Ocean spokesperson, confirmed that the FBI and Coast Guard boarded the Maersk Saltoro successful the Port of Baltimore connected Saturday morning.
Wilson has antecedently said the proprietor and manager "look guardant to our time successful tribunal to acceptable the grounds straight" astir the Justice Department's lawsuit.
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