Crime
Bunkering: Nigerian Navy arrests Indian sailor, 17 others
By Richards Adeniyi
The Nigerian Navy has nabbed an Indian sailor and 17 others over an attempt to illegally export stolen crude oil to Ghana.
The suspects and vessels have been handed over to the police at the naval base in Nigeria’s oil hub Port Harcourt, to enable further investigations on the suspects, said Capt. Adegoke Ebo, executive officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder.
According to him, the suspects were on the verge of moving the crude oil to Ghana before they were arrested by naval forces.
One of the suspects, a Nigerian, had been actively involved in sourcing crude oil from Nigerian creeks and shipping it to Platon Gas Oil Refinery in Ghana’s Tema, without clearance and approval, the military officer said.
“Additionally, the evidence available to us suggests that the illicit crime had been going on for a while,” Ebo said.
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