Reuters/KL: – A foreign tanker was seized by the Islamic Republic in the Gulf of Oman for smuggling 2 million litres of fuel, the chief justice of Hormozgan province said on Wednesday, according to the Islamic Republic’s semi-official Mehr news agency.
“During the continuous process of monitoring and surveilling suspicious fuel smuggling movements in the Gulf of Oman, officers inspected a foreign tanker due to its lack of legal documents regarding its cargo and seized it on charges of carrying 2 million litres of smuggled fuel,” Hormozgan’s Chief Justice Mojtaba Ghahremani said, according to the report.
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The judiciary official added that 17 crew members were arrested and that a judicial case was opened at the Jask county prosecutor’s office.
There was no additional information regarding the name of the tanker or the flag to which it is registered.
