MOSCOW, April 7 (RAPSI) – Former engineer of the British Petroleum (BP) oil company has received 10 months of suspended prison sentence for violating legislation on water pollution that resulted from 2010 oil spill in the Mexican Gulf, Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

According to Associated Press, prosecutors maintained that rig supervisor on the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig, Donald Vidrine, showed criminal negligence by not making necessary preparations before explosion that resulted in over 5 million barrels of raw oil being spilled in the Mexican Gulf.

Earlier Vidrine and his colleague Robert Kaluza were also charged with manslaughter, but these charges were dropped and replaced with violation of the US Clean Water Act. Kaluza was acquitted in February, while Vidrine pleaded guilty.

These two sentences have completed a series of criminal cases related to the accident, Associated Press reported.

This week the US Supreme Court approved the agreement between BP with US authorities on the payment of 18.7 billion dollars for the damage due to an accident. As stated by BP, the total financial costs spent to eliminate the consequences of the accident, excluding taxes, amounted to $53.8 billion.

The explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 caused the largest environmental disaster in US history. Oil leak was stopped only by 4 August 2010. 11 people died because of the accident.