The chief justice of Iran’s Hormozgan Province says a recently seized tanker and its fuel cargo worth more than five million dollars will be transferred to government ownership.
Mojtaba Ghahremani made the announcement on Friday, two days after Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) seized the foreign ship carrying about 4 million liters of smuggled fuel near Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf.
He said the measure came in line with the directives of Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Eje on preventing fuel smuggling and taking action against it.
“The oil tanker and its cargo, worth nearly 7,000 billion riyals (over $5,200,000), will be taken over by the government,” he added......more here
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