The vessel and crew’s nationalities were not announced, but the value of its cargo amounted to $6.6m, an official said.
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has seized the crew and cargo of a foreign ship that was carrying 11 million litres (2.9m gallons) of smuggled fuel, according to a local judiciary official.
The judiciary chief of the southern province of Hormozgan, Mojtaba Ghahremani, announced on Monday that the IRGC’s naval force confiscated the unnamed vessel in the waters of the Gulf.
“The captain and crew of this foreign tanker are also detained as investigations and legal procedures are being completed”, he said in a video message released by the semi-official Tasnim news website, while flanked by IRGC and judiciary personnel on the ship’s deck....
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