The reason is that the Coast Guard has already started a process to demand a water pollution fee of SEK 1.2 million from the shipping company TT-Line.
Jan Olin’s investigation could have ended with the issuing of a corporate fine, but it is now closed.
It is not allowed to have two procedures, he says, making a comparison with tax crimes:
You cannot be tried twice for the same thing.
The Coast Guard’s demand for a water pollution fee is based on the fact that 60,000 liters of oil are estimated to have been released after the Marco Polo ran aground in October last year.