David Gerger to Defend Indicted Cargo Ship Engineer

The chief engineer of the Singaporean container ship MV Dali has hired prominent Houston criminal defense attorney David Gerger to represent him against federal charges filed Tuesday involving the ship’s March 2024 crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge that killed six people and caused billions of dollars in damages.

The U.S. Justice Department indicted Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair, a 47-year-old Indian national, along with the two companies — Synergy Marine Group and Synergy Maritime Group — that employed him on 18 criminal counts, including conspiracy, willfully failing to immediately inform the U.S. Coast Guard of a known hazardous condition, obstruction of an agency proceeding and making false statements.