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After nine months of
incarceration, Nigeria has finally released the crew of the VLCC Heroic Idun, who were accused of
attempting to lift oil from an offshore platform and held without bail since
last August.
The Marshall
Islands-flagged tanker and its crew were
arrested by Equatorial Guinea forces over alleged crude oil theft, and
then returned to Nigeria for further investigations.
The 2020-built 300,000
dwt vessel was supposed to load a cargo of crude oil in Nigeria’s Akpo terminal
on August 8 last year but was delayed, and later that day approached by a ship
that did not have its automatic identification systems (AIS) switched on,
claiming to be Nigerian Navy.
After several attempts
to identify the vessel failed, the VLCC escaped from the area and out into
international waters under suspicion of an attempted piracy attack. A few days
later, at the request of the Nigerian navy, the vessel was interdicted by a
navy vessel from Equatorial Guinea.
The vessel had a total
crew of 26 persons. 15 crewmembers were taken ashore and had been held in
detention at Malabo for many months while the remaining crewmembers were left
on the ship.
Finally, after much campaigning, the ship’s owner has been ordered to pay a nominal fine, and all crew have been sent back to their homes across the world.
