France hands captain of suspected Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker one-year jail sentence
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“France hands captain of suspected Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker one-year jail sentence”
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“A French court on Monday sentenced in absentia the captain of a suspected Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker to one year in jail for failing to comply with orders to stop his ship”
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— France–Russia relations, also known as Franco-Russian relations or Russo-French relations, are the bilateral relations between the French Republic and the Russian Federation. France has an embassy in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France–Russia_relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France–Russia_relations
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— The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of forcing the Russian Empi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
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— Russians are a small diaspora in France but one of the most important groups in the Russian diaspora.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_France
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“The vessel, which the French navy boarded in September before releasing the vessel, was thought to be transporting Russian oil in violation of Western sanctions”
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Wikipedia confirms the Boracay tanker (Pushpa) is flagged under Benin and linked to the Russian shadow fleet suspected of violating sanctions. The Russian shadow fleet entry explicitly describes vessels evading sanctions.
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— Pushpa, also known as Boracay, Kiwala, Varuna, and P. Fos (IMO number: 9332810), is a crude oil tanker built in 2007. The ship claims to be sailing under the flag of Benin, although the flag status is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushpa_(ship)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushpa_(ship)
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— The Russian shadow fleet is a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Russia to evade sanctions, following the enactment of 2022 Russian crude oil price cap sanctions by the G7 countrie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet
“The court in the western city of Brest also ordered Zhangjie to pay a 150,000-euro ($172,000) fine”
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— Shijie, (simplified Chinese: 尸解; traditional Chinese: 屍解; pinyin: Shijie; Wade–Giles: shih-chieh; lit. 'corpse release') which has numerous translations such as liberation from the corpse and release …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shijie_(Taoism)
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— Xuanzang (Chinese: 玄奘; Wade–Giles: Hsüen Tsang; [ɕɥɛ̌n.tsâŋ]; 6 April 602 – 5 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (陳褘 / 陳禕), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanzang
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“The vessel, claiming to be flagged in Benin, was thought to be part of a fleet transporting Russian oil in violation of Western sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine”
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“Two employees of a Russian private security company were on board the Boracay when the French navy stopped it”
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“The Boracay has been linked to mysterious drone flights over Denmark last year, part of a spate of drone sightings and airspace violations in European countries blamed on Russia”
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“No formal link has however been established and Moscow denies responsibility”
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“The European Union lists 598 vessels, suspected of being part of the 'shadow fleet', as banned from European ports and maritime services”
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