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		</div><p>The head of a ferry operator was sentenced to seven years in prison in South Korea’s highest court over a ship sinking that killed more than 300 people.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced Kim Han-sik, president of Chonghaejin Marine Co, on charges including manslaughter.</p>
<p>The court found Kim responsible for failing to prevent the overloading of cargo and improper storage on the ship that judges said contributed to the sinking.</p>
<p>Four other Chonghaejin officials were sentenced to two-and-a-half to four years in prison on similar charges.</p>
<p>A total of 304 people died when the ferry Sewol sank off South Korea’s south-west coast in April last year in one of the country’s deadliest maritime disaster in decades. Most of the victims were teenagers from a single school.</p>
<p>Divers recovered 295 bodies from the wreckage before the government stopped underwater searches last year. Nine victims remain missing.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court could not confirm when it will be able to make a verdict on Sewol captain Lee Joon-seok, who appealed after a regional high court convicted him of homicide and sentenced him to life in prison in April.</p>
<p>The Gwangju High Court ruled that Lee committed “homicide by wilful negligence” because he fled the ship without making any evacuation order, though he, as a captain, is required by law to take some measures to rescue his passengers.</p>
<p>South Korea is now paying £48.5 million to a consortium led by China’s state-run Shanghai Salvage Co to handle the difficult and potentially dangerous operation of salvaging the 6,800-ton Sewol.</p>
<p>The government expects the ship to be raised by around July next year.</p>
<p>The relatives of the ferry victims hope that raising the ship will reveal details about the cause of the sinking and help find the bodies of nine passengers still missing.</p>
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