France on Sunday took into custody the Indian captain of an oil tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s sanctions-busting “shadow fleet” for the vessel’s failure to fly a flag, prosecutors said.
The 58-year-old captain was in charge of the tanker, the Grinch, which was seized by the French navy in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday and is now moored under guard at a southern French port near Marseille.
The Marseille prosecutors’ office, in charge of investigating the case, said the rest of the...
Russian shadow tanker’s Indian captain, crew in French custody
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Source: scmp.com

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