cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/4574561
A French court is to try the Chinese captain of a tanker from Russia's "shadow fleet" early next year after it was intercepted off France, prosecutors said Thursday, in a move seen as a message to Moscow over its efforts to skirt Western oil sanctions.
The French navy on Saturday stopped the Boracay, a vessel claiming to be flagged in Benin and blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia's sanction-busting "shadow fleet" of ageing oil tankers, according to the public prosecutor's office in the northwestern city of Brest.
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Ziggurat@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 329d
Note that they'll be tried only for refusing to comply with a police check whatever is the proper word for that. The kind of stuff you get a fine for.
Looks like more a pretext to bring that captain to France and have intelligence service talking with him than a serious crime.